EMPIRE FARMERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 11

EMPIRE FARMERS

ARRIVAL TO-MORROW

SHORT STAY IN WELLINGTON

The English, Canadian, and South African farmers who are at present touring tho Dominion will bo arriving in Wellington to-morrow from the Wairarapa. Northern districts, Palmerston North,, and Hawkes Bay, have already been briefly visited, and on Monday afternoon the Straits will be crossed to J?ieton and the South Island tour will bi(.?in. The party is due at Lambton Station to-morrow at 12.38 p.m. and will stay at various hotels. Trips round Wellington and a visit to the milk depot have been arranged for Monday morning. The official reception by the Government takes place at the Parliamentary Buildings on Monday morning at • 11.30 a.m; At 3 p.m. the Tamahine takes the party to Picton. With the party is Colonel J. Pow, secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, but he,will leave for the South to-morrow night.

When the party returns to Wellington on 23rd March, the tour will have been completed. On the 24th a conference will be held in the Dominion Farmers' Institute, and in the evening English and South African members of the party will leave by rail for Auckland and the Canadian party will sail by the Makura next day for San Francisco.