TOUR FOR FARMERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20767, 9 January 1931, Page 14

TOUR FOR FARMERS.

MEN FROM DOMINIONS. PROGRAMME IN BRITAIN. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, Dec. 4. The British National Union has been arranging for a tour of Dominion farmers through Great Britain during the coming Northern Hemisphere summer. This tour will be largely in the nature of a return visit to the one made by British farmers to Australia and New Zealand at the beginning of this year.

"A very warm welcome awaits the members of the party, saifl the secretary, Mr. A Ca ii ha in, when speaking of the arrangements. "We expect to have between 20 and 25 farmers each from New Zealand, Australia, Africa and Canada, with perhaps a few from the colonies. We propose to use motor coaches throughout I lie country instead of the railways The two great, national agricultural shows will be visited —the Highland Show in Edinburgh and the Royal in Warwick. A visit will be paid to Epsom on the day the Derby is run, and anothei outstanding item will be the conference with representatives of the woollen industry in Bradford. Wo are also trying >to arrange meetings with representatives of the great distribution trades. In New Zealand the Farmers' Union is handling the matter for us, and in Australia we have asked Messrs Dalgetv to deal with all inquiries." The programme drawn out shows first a week with headquarters in London, from June 1 to June 7. Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Oban, Glasgow and Edinburgh will be places visited from June 8 to June 25. From Juno 29 to July 11 tho party are to bo at Liverpool, Bradford, Leeds, Leamington, Stratford on-Avon, Warwick and Birmingham. From July 12 to July ,31 the places to bo visited include Oxford, Reading, Ipswich, Norwich, Spalding, Peterborough. Bedford, and so back to London.

A number of tho visitors, to be known as "I?" party, will liavo tho same pro gramme as from Juno J to July 9. I'rom that date Il ev will break off from the main body and visit the West Country, iii'-hiding Gloucester, Bristol, Bath. Bideford, Clovelly, Exotei and Yeovil. From there they will go on to Salisbury, Winchester, Chichester and Brighton, returning to Loudon on July 29.