AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31439, 4 August 1967, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS

Party Of 100 To Visit Canterbury A party of about 100 will visit Canterbury early next month after a conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, which is being held in Sydney this month. The group will come to New Zealand after a postconference tour of tome parts of Australia. A committee consisting of representatives of Lincoln College, the Department of Agriculture and the Tourist and Publicity Department have prepared an itinerary for the visitors. On September 7, the party will visit the Department of Agriculture's irrigation research station at winchmore, an irrigated mixed arable farm, a high-country station and Ashley Dene on their way back to Lincoln College to attend an informal buffet dinner. The next day the party will visit Banks Peninsula taking in two farms and seeing places of scenic interest On Saturday, September 9, they will leave for the North Island. Two members of the staff from Lincoln College will attend the meeting in Australia. They are Mr R. C. Jensen, acting heed of the agricultural economics department at the college, and Mr R. W. M. Johnson, acting director of the agricultural economics research unit Representatives from countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Russia will attend the conference, and among them will be agricultural and general economists and also farm management specialists.