FARMERS' TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 December 1930, Page 6

FARMERS' TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN

(To the Editor) Sir. —I am sure you will be interested lo know that lho British National Union which was the body responsible for bringing to your country a party of Empire farmers in the early part of this year lias now arranged for a return visit'to Groat Britain in the summer of noxt year. The party will consist of representatives of New Zealand, Australian, Canadian and South African Agriculture, and it has been decided to allocate to each Dominion twenty lo twenty-live places. During my visit with the Empire farmers I made the fact of this tour known fairly generally, and I am pleased to state that tho New Zealand Farmers' Union has very kindly agreed to assist 'us in recruiting tho desired number. We are arranging a very interesting programme which will cover a period of two months, during which a very large portion of both England and Scotland will be visited. The two great national Agricultural Shows—the Highland Show in Edinburgh in June and the Royal Show- at Warwick in July—will be attended, and at Bradford arrangements are being made whereby visiting sheep farmers will be able to meet in Conference representatives of the great woollen industry. Facilities will be given to fruitgrowers lo visit Covent Garden and meet the principal representatives of the fruit distribution trade, and Mr Forsyth of your Meat Board in London has offered his services to those of our visitors who desire to see something of the great meat markets in the Metropolis. The tour will commence in London on the Ist of June, and two days later we shall take the party to Epsom on the day the great classic Derby Race is run. I need scarcely say that apart from their educational character our tours have a distinctly patriotic purpose, and visitors will be brought into touch on many occasions with some of the best elements in our national life. We are proposing to leave it to those who wish to join us to make their own shipping arrangements. This will enable them to travel by any route or class they choose without being limited to the precise arrangements we might otherwise make. Visitors, however, must reach London on. or before the Ist of June, when they will be taken charge of by this Union, which will provide all necessary hotel accommodation and transport until the end of July. Lt.-Col. Pow, the Secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, Wellington, will supply the fullest information to intending visitors; and/ as regards steamship accommodation, the Union Steam Ship Company will render every possible assistance.—l am etc:, A. CANHAM, Secretary, British National Union. London,' 28th October. ,