TOUR OF DOMINION

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1935, Page 14

TOUR OF DOMINION

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARTY. TARANAKI TO BE INCLUDED. The forthcoming tour to New Zealand by a large party of South Australian farmers and Adelaide business men was mentioned yesterday by Mr. J. A. Malcolm, manager of the New Zealand Government Tourist and Trade Bureau' at Melbourne, who is in charge of the party of Strathaird tourists at present visiting Taranaki. The party will arrive at Bluff and travel to Auckland by a leisurely tour of the South Island, then through Wellington and up the Wairara.pa and Elast Coast. From Auckland the party will return to Wellington via Taranaki before sailing for Australia. The tour is being sponsored by Colonel Butler, a well known South Australian personality, and will include prominent men in all walks of life, many of whom are being given the tour at their employers' expense for educative and business purposes. The tour is primarily . not a sightseeing one but a business and educational one, and in’ New Zealand it is being arranged in co-operation with stock and station firms, the Farmers’ Union and the Department of Agriculture. The party expects to reach New Plymouth on January 30 from Waitomo, and next day will probably be spent in visiting various farms, herds, factories or anything else in which the visitors may be interested. It is hoped that the tour will result in a certain amount cf business such as the sale of livestock, in addition to its educational value to the visitors. On February 1 the party will travel from New Plymouth to Wellington.