EMPIRE FARMERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 28 April 1928, Page 10

EMPIRE FARMERS

BRITISH UNION TOURS Farmers' tours, organised by thi British National Union as the result of successful tours to and from South Africa, promise to become both useful and profitable, and in November next, year it is proposed to organise a tour to Australia and New Zealand by 150 farmers from every other part of the Empire, to bo followed by a similar visit to Canada the following year. New Zealand will bo represented in a tour of Great Britain and Ireland which will commence on 4th June next, terminating in London on 17th August. Commencing in London, the tour will cover practically the whole of the United Kingdom, and besides inspection of British and. Irish agriculture, conferences of representatives of all forms of produce will be arranged. The party will bo received by 11.8. H. the Prince, of AVales at St. James's Palace, and will visit the Boyal farms. While the studious aspect of the tour is the main' object, covering as it will- the national agricultural shows of the year, ami agricultural institutions such as Eothamstead, Reading, Kirton, Scale Hayne, Mailing, and stud societies, etc., Epsom on Derby Day will be visited, as doubtless other national institutions, according to the tastes of the party. New Zealand farmers who left from 1 Wellington by the Ecmuera were Messrs. A. C. Ward, Wimbledon, Hawkes Bay, and Alex". Drummoml, Tapawera, Nelson. Others who left by the same vessel wore Messrs. Alfred Fislicr (Christolmrch) and W. K. Jones and Vincent Jones (Auckland). Mr. J. IN". Rose (Southland) left by the Tahiti on 10th April. Others.who left for Kngland previously will also take part in the tour.