Empire Producers' Tour

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 6, 8 January 1936, Page 2

Empire Producers' Tour

Tho British National Union has now completed arrangements for its Empire primary producers’ world tour, and the party will sail from London in tho P. and. O. liner Mooltau on January 10 for Australia. After a brief stay at Bombay and Colombo the party will arrive at Fremantle on February 11, and continuing iu the Moolton will be at Adelaide on February 15, Melbourne February 17 and Sydney February 20. After two days in Sydney the party will continue its tour by the Wanganella to New Zealand, arriving at Auckland on February 28. After a comprehensive tour of the North and South Islands with frequent halts to meet representatives of the various local industries and to enjoy the friendly receptions arranged ny the agricultural and farming associations, the party will embark from Auckland by the Canadian-Australa-sian Line E.M.S. Niagara, for Vancouver, calling at Suva and Honolulu. Canada will be crossed by the C.P. Railway and on April 25 the world tourists will embark by C.P.R. steamor for Southampton. The British National Union is organising its tour in continuance of its policy of bringing the farming communities and interests of the Empire into personal touch, so that matters of mutual concern may be freely discussed.

Although the obj’ect of the B-.N.U. is to foster an exchange of trade, it is in no sense a commercial organisation, but rather a patriotic movement designed to forward the interests of the Empire and its primary producers. The B.N.U. is non-political and the members of the touring party pay their own expenses.