BRITISH FARMERS
IN COUNTRY FOR CHRISTMAS WELLINGTON, Dec. 21.
The United Kingdom farmers' delegation, within the next fow days, will have dispersed on to well-known farms for the Christmas period. They .will reassemble in Wellington next Wednesday and will leave a few days later for a tour of the South Island, travelling by way of Nelson and the West Coast to Canterbury, and then through the Mackenzie Country tc Queenstown. The return journey will be broken at Invercargill, Dunedin, Timuru, and Christchurch, the party arriving in Wellington in time to meet primary producers' organisations at a conference in the second week in January. A tour along the East Coast of the North Island will complete the itinerary of the delegation, which will then tour Australia and Canada.
Members of the party who have already left Wellington for'the Christmas period are Messrs'S D. Ratcliff and G. Tuker. Mr Ratcliff, one of whose main interests is in seeds, has left for South Canterbury. Mr Tuker, whose home farm has 120 acres in apples and pears and 70 acres devoted to vegetables and dairy-farming, has gone to- Hastings before leaving for Nelson.
Ihe Animal Research Station at Wallaceville was visited yesterday morning by the remaining members of the delegation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 20, 21 December 1944, Page 4
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