VICTORIAN FARMERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 3

VICTORIAN FARMERS

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND

Members of the party of Victorian farmers which has been organised to make a rapid tour of New Zealand, will arrive in Auckland by the Mariposa to-morrow morning. The party numbers 77. The trip has been arranged under the auspices of the Bendigo Agricultural and Horticultural Society, with the object'of enabling those who take part to study pastoral, dairying, and agricultural methods and conditions in New Zealand, to meet representatives of the primary industries and exchange ideas with them, and generally to cement the bonds of friendship between Australia and the Dominion.. The travellers have invited four representatives of the Auckland Agricultural and latsoral Association and four representatives of the Farmers' Union to be their guests at lunch after their arrival tomorrow, and opportunity will then be taken to exchange fraternal greetings So far no other local appointments have been made for the party. On Wednesday the tourists will go on to l'rankton Junction and there inspect the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co.'s factory before proceeding to theWaitbmo Laves. On Thursday they will journey on to New Plymouth via Mount Messenger, and on Friday will proceed from New Plymouth to Wanganui. The next day they are bopked.tq pass through Wellington and connect with the ferry steamer for Lyttelton. The 22nd January will be spent in sight-seeing about Christchurch, and the following day in visitmg the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory, the Belfast Freezing Works,'and Lincoln College, before leaving for Wellington in the evening.

On 24th January they -will travel to falmerston North, and the following day will be spent inspecting Massey College and journeying to Napier. From Napier the party will proceed to Wairakei on 26th January, and on 27th January to Rotorua where the visitors will spend two days before leaving for Auckland to rejoin the steamer for Sydney on 30th January. .