DOMINION FARMERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 13

DOMINION FARMERS.

ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY. CIVIC RECEPTION GIVEN. SYDNEY, Juno 20. The visiting Now Zealand farmers have arrived at Sydney. They were given a civic reception to-day. They will spend the next few (lays in sightseeing locally and will leave tor Queensland on Monday. Thero are 67 farmers in the party now visiting Australia. They left Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday. According to tho itinerary arranged the farmers to-day will leave Sydney for the Jenolan Caves via the Bluo Mountains and return to-morrow evening. On Monday they will leave by special train for Queensland, and will visit Toowoomba, the chief city of the Darling Downs district. After an' inspection of the Gallon Agricultural College they will complete tho journey to Brisbane on Wednesday. After a day of sight seeing in that city the party will depart for Nambour, a centre of the banana iitid citrus fruit industries, where dairying and sugar-cam-, growing are also extensively carried on. A visit lo Bundabeig, whero there are sugar-mills and distilleries, will be paid on tho following day and the party will return to Brisbane on June 29. Further sightseeing will include the towns of Lismore, Wollonbar and Grafton and tho party will reach Sydney on July 3 to spend two days al the sheep show. On July 7 a visit to Canberra will be made, after which the Murrumbidgco and Wagga Wagga districts will be visited. Leaving Wagga Wagga on July 10, tho party will make a tour of the wheat districts in the Murray River basin and of the vineyards in the Rutherglen district, after wliicli a day will be spent at the Mount Buffalo National Park. Arriving in Melbourne on July 14, the party will leave tho same day for a tour of the famous brown coalfields of Victoria. On July 17 th'j farmers will leave Melbourne by (he Maheno for Bluff, after a tour comprising 3500 miles by railway and 700 miles by motor-car.