FARMERS' TOURS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 11

FARMERS' TOURS

TWO PARTIES1 SET OUT

:■<;■. ■: :wxy) u.l'iLttxjueiß;Ol!jx-.,uu v x ■■. ■■..•.■.: ■'. It is, at; this-time: 6£; year,;, thiit1. the) farmer '. can ; more,; readily^" leave > hpme than .at any 'q'tji'er,' and;sorho 'at least1 are making the .most of the slacker', period: ami ■ liavcv joined "in'.farmer^';."tours,-. a method. of.seeing the resources of other districts than their;' own',which is in-, creasing in./popularity.;:;' >'■■':■.•'<■.■■ *. ' , . .To-night.,tyro, parties: will 'arrive i,n Wellington;-'by-,jriail,'. one of farmers from tlio- North of Auckland, the,uiembers ofthe other coming.ifr'oiri Poverty ' Bay,. Hawkes Bay,.;'Wairarapa, -.and ~Manawatu. districts..:,* T,he/latter leave for. the' South; to-night,* but' tho o thers.'wiU' remain in.Wellington, until Tuesday."'. '. '.";■■'''■■. ■';>■'.'"■ '" ■'..■-■•'.•■■\C:Y-'' To-morrow they will be entertained by jlr. L. A.'Paish, British Trade Coiiimissioner, Mr, Julian' Foster, American Trad© Commissioner, and -members !of; the Dominion farmers 'Union.,': . In" the 'evening''they NviH'attend. ~! the"'; Port Nicholson, .Band 's[ ";:concei-I.'«'.''The Women 's':\ -Division...of :i:he. •' rarmcrs '■ L Tuion 'will entertain ithe.ladies:, of tho party, to 'morning and afternoon;tea' on ;Moiday, rand other functions.1 fori the: party's entei'ta'innierit' : ivill bo"the inBpectibn''of r the;- 'WellingtonI','Woollbii, Company's• mills, and.'-tienera-1;. Motors' works,,.' : On. Tuesday the' farmers •will leavo for. Hastings, 'via: the AVairarapa. Hastings .and Napier will combine in' giving. .theili' -.a-,,;, civic ■ reception, and Furmors' Union;members will■ entertain them.and soo -that they, sco something o: l: the -resources /of the "district..; ' On' 'Thursday; the party, will leave for Pal-" merstpn North, where another civic.reception ■: awaits ;theuv and1.-visits"; will a,lso be ■mrfcle, to the .Massey Agocultur-1 al College andjthe" dairying operations being .carried out on the rich ..Kairauga flats, .id On Friday doparturo will be' made for -Botprua,. where the week-end will .Ijo.. spent. , An iiispectioii- will ,be made -.of ', the' much talked 'of pumice lnnds and onco again the .;Fanners' Uniou members will.see:,to flic entertainment of their colleagues.. The.'party will go to Awjklrnid on the.Monday on their, Way V i(•]{'■• to • - their.!: still. ' more i noi'thcrn :li6nics.■".'• .. . ," , ' .

, ; The othbr pnrty'.will le'avo to-night for the South, by' the.Maori. In .Christ-church-'.a .warm wolcoino, awaits thoni from, members of ■ the -'Farmers.Union and a special :, reception '■, • committbo which .has.beftn set up; aud Akaroa. and Lincoln Collego arc ; amoiig- the', plaice's to, be. visited. ■ At Methvon a ploughing demonstration will bo attended, and Ashburtpn," Timaru, Dunediii) , Queoristown, and Invorcargill. ,will all, bo' visit-' ed before the farmers return home.