TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22778, 14 January 1936, Page 10

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND

BRITISH NATIONAL UNION PERSONNEL OF THE PARTY f From Our Own ' Correspondent l (By Air Mail) • LONDON, December 21. Major-general F. J. Duncan, of the British National Union, has now completed his list of the party which will tour New Zealand early next year. They will leave by the P. and 0. liner Mooltan on January 10. On their way to the Dominion they will call at Bombay, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide,’Melbourne, and Sydney, arriving in Auckland on February 28. A very comprehensive itinerary has been prepared. From Auckland the party will go to Hamilton and the Waitomo Caves, thence to New Plymouth, Hawera, Wanganui, Palmerston North, arid Masterton and Wellington. Proceeding to the South Island, they will go from Christchurch to Invercargill, then’to the Lakes, and back to Dunedin. The journey from Dunedin to Wellington and then to Napier will be direct. From Napier they go to Wairakei and Rotorua, and so back to Auckland, where they join the Niagara on March 31, On their homeward journey they will call at Suva and Honolulu, and in Canada they will also break their journey at a few places. Major-general Duncan, who will be the leader of the party, is well fitted for his duties. He is a very friendly soul and full af tact. Already he has led several parties through Britain and more recently lie piloted a party through South Africa, where tact- is especially necessary. In New Zealand he should find his task an easy one. The intention was to include in - the party not only farmers, but people engaged in industries allied to agriculture. As it happens, most of the British people are either farmers or land owners, and the South Africans are farmers or fruitgrowers. BRITISH PARTY. There are 24 from Great Britain. These are: Mr A. Hinge, a farmer, of Borden, Sittingbourne, Kent; Mrs Murray-Baillie, a large estate owner, of Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Scotland; Mr Neil Murray-Usher, a big sheep farmer, of Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Scotland; Miss E. Carnes, Mrs Helen Silcock, and Miss E. Pratt; Mr J. M. Owers, a farmer, of Newchurch, Kington, Herefordshire; Mr W. P. Hornby, Torquay; Miss 0. YaughanPriee and Miss J. Vaughan-Price, of Hove, who are land owners; Mr J. Marchbank, lecturer at an agricultural college, of Kinghorn, Fife, and Mrs Marchbank; Miss D. M. Malet, who is interested in agriculture, of Newcastle, Belfast; Miss K. M.- Parker,, connected with farming, Ouseburn, York; Mr D. Chard, a motor engineer, who has been on several tours, of Chatham, Kent; ’Mr G. Austin, a friend of Mr Chard’s, of London; Mr James C. Holm, Rochester, Kent, a farmer, and Mrs Holm; Mr L. Maclean, of St. Mary’s Hall, near Rochester, Kent, farmer, and Mrs Maclean; Mrs Jopling, Thornhill Park, Sunderland, her son is in New Zealand and 'is contemplating taking up px-operty; Mr L. C. Tipper, a well-known veterinary surgeon, of Birmingham; Mr P, B. Smith, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, a farmer, who has also farmed in Canada; and Mr E. C. Voysey, of Oxford, surveyor. SOUTH AFRICAN PARTY.

The South African party of 19 consist? of Mr H. H. Dilley, Tzaneen, Transvaal; Dr A. Ernst, “Allesbeste,” Tzaneen, N. Transvaal; Mr C. W. Albrecht, Constantia Vale, Cohstantia, Cape Province; and Mrs Albrecht; Mrs hurst.’’ Constantia, Cape Province; Mr W. Birch, Vogelvlei, Dordrecht, Cape Colony; Mr M. R. Boon, Box 1, Boons, Transvaal; Mr J. Mitchell, Johannesburgh, and Mrs Mitchell; Mr J. Wreford, Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia, and Mrs Wreford: Mr and Mrs F. Van Zyl; Mr John Fisher, School of Agriculture, Cedara, Natal, and Mrs Fisher; Mr Malan, Mr Malan, Mrs M. S. Cole, Diepfontein, Franklin P. 0., E. Griqualand; Mrs Macfarlane, Diepfontein, E. Griqualand. Mr H. H. Dilley is the president of the Transvaal Fruit Growing Association. Mr John Fisher is president of the School of Agriculture in Natal. The other members of the South African party are cither farmers or fruitgrowers.