BETTER FARMING CAMPAIGN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 16

BETTER FARMING CAMPAIGN.

SCHEME -IN AUSTRALIA. The Great White Train, which has with Government assistance been serpentining; the State for many months, a« a. means of. advertising Austral innmade woods, and which as a mobile exhibition has been attracting much attention. is to be known henceforth as the “Better Farming Train.” It is to be re-equipped, and he used as a .means of instructing men, on the land, and more especially new ancl . struggling settlers. Tt will in turn visit all the farming districts in the State. Fitted with wireless for the purpose of having lectures' broadcast, and with experts on hoard, to assist producers in the solution of their many problems, it will he 'Something of an agricultural college on wheels. If this novel train fulfils even in part the ambitious aims mapped out for it, its value to the men on the land will ho beyond doubt. The Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr Fraser, it is stated,' is so convinced that the project wil' .serve to encourage settlement, and so improve the railway revenue by more traffic, that he is willing to share the cost of equipping and running the train. The Government is out just now to capture the rural vote, which it badly needs, and this new scheme, if it is well carried out,, ought to serve in a measure to put the Labour Party in better grace in the country. The Government has tlrei co-operation of the Press in this project, even if it is attacking it without mercy on other grounds. ______