EMPIRE FARMERS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 8

EMPIRE FARMERS

Tour of Great Britain

ITINERARY OUTLINED

Comprehensive arrangements have been made for the Empire farmers’ tour of Great Britain, to take place in June and July of this year, a provisional itinerary for which has recently been compiled. It is necessary for anyone making the tour to be in London by June 1, though it is not necessary for parties from any one country to leave together. With London as the starting point for both “A” and “B” parties—the tour has been divided into two sections —the itinerary provides first for a visit by a party to Windsor Castle and its farms, then for a long journey to Perth, in Scotland. Some time will be spent in Scotland, and among other things to be visited will be the Highland Show at Edinburgh on June 23 and 24. Liverpool and Bradford will be visited on the way south again, and on July 6 and following days the Royal Show, to be held in Warwick, will be attended. Thence the way lies to Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading, back to London for ft while, and on to Norwich, Sandringham, and back again to London. The itinerary for “B” party is very different, and starts with a visit to the Royal Show in Warwick immediately after leaving London. Then the party will go to Wales, and spend some time in Bristol. Salisbury and Winchester are to be “ports of call,” and then Brighton is listed as a place to be visited. What surely must be a delightful tour is. arranged through the beautiful Sussex country to Rye and East Mailing, spending the night at Tunbridge Wells, and then back to London by way of Sevenoaks. Arrangements are being made to hold a series of conferences during the tour. At Bradford the party will be able to meet the woollen manufacturers on their own ground and discuss with them the vital problem of marketing, and prices generally. In London, it is hoped, with the assistance of the Empire Marketing Board, to arrange a meeting of representatives of fruit distributors, while at the two great agricultural shows—the Royal and the Highland—members of the party will be brought in touch with all the more important elements of agriculture in Great Britain. The question of holding an 'Empire Agricultural Conference, as suggested by New Zealand and South Africa, will in all likelihood be discussed with the British agricultural organisations.