GOODWILL TOUR

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13890, 24 June 1938, Page 3

GOODWILL TOUR

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS. TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA. An exchange of goodwill tours between the primary producers of New Zealand and South Australia has been made during the past few years, in January of this year a party of South Australian. iarir.er s visited the Dominion, and the reciprocal trip of the New Zealanders will c*mmienc«* on July 7, when primary producers from the several parts of the Dominion. with iheir wives, families and fritnds, will leave Wellington, for a tour of the agricultural and pastoral districts of South Australia. For a week the party will make their headquarters in Adelaide, the “garden city” of the Commonwealth. Situated on a plain which .gently slopes from the foothills of the Mt. Lofty Ranges to the sandy shores of the Gulf St. Vincent, the city is surrounded by a, belt of parklands some 2000 acres in extent, which form a. natural boundary between the citv proper and its suburbs. Besides the spacious parkland area there art numerous squares, gardens and tree-lined boulevards. The prt sent picturesque setting of Adelaide is due to th<* foresight of its founder. Colonel William Light, who conceived the idea of its layout and put it into practice, not without some. opposition. To-day Adelaide stands a monument to his far-seeing scheme of town planning It is indeed a model city, containing a people among whose characteristics hospitality to the visitor is not the least outstanding. The idea behind this exchange of visits between South Austialia and New Zealand farmers is to fester the spirit of goodwill between the Commonwealth and the I>minion, as well as to compare method* adopted by the two countries in primary production generally.