FARMERS’ TOUR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22011, 3 May 1946, Page 3

FARMERS’ TOUR

VISIT TO_BRITAIN AGRICULTURAL TALKS COLLECTION OF DATA (Special Correspondent.) (11 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. Five members of .the New Zealand delegation .to attend .the international conference of agricultural producers, Messrs. W. W. Mulholland, B. V. Cooksley, K. Holyoake, Congdon and W. E. Hale, accompanied by Messrs. Jameson and Wardell, are expected to arrive at Liverpool on Tuesday next. They will be met there by Mr. A. H. Ward, director of herd improvement in New Zealand, and members of the National Farmers’ Union, and in London by Mr. S. A. Chisholm, London manager of the New Zealand Mea.t Marketing Board. Mr. Grigg is expected to arrive by air early next week.

Before the conference begins on May 21 the delegates will be conducted on a tour designed to show them the pattern of British agriculture. They will visit the Midlands and the Wash districts to see typical breeds of livestock and farm mechanisation.

Altogether they will visit nearly 20 farms. The tour begins on May 13 and ends on the evening of May 17. At Birmingham the delegates will attend a reception by the Lord Mayor. They will visit the King’s farm at Windsor on May 18. where His Majesty will receive .them. There .they will see a herd of Scottish Shorthorns that has been kept continuously at Windsor since 1853.

The conference will include addresses by Mr. Tom Williams. Minister of Agriculture, and Lord Horder on the relationship between nutrition and Agriculture, Professor A. W. Ashby on co-operation in agriculture. Sir John Orr on the work of the Food Agriculture Organisation. The delegates will also visit Arundel Castle, the home of the Duke of Norfolk, the Ford Motor Company, Dagenham, and the Rothamsted Experimental Station. There will be horticulture tours and visits to pedigree breeders.