FARMERS’ TRAIN FOR WEST COAST AND CANTERBURY PROPOSED.
Following the experiment successfully tried in the North Island last year, the Railway Department is at present considering the suggestion to run a “ farmers’ train ” from the West Coast to Canterbury. The idea is that a special train should convey farmers and their wives from the West Coast to a particular district in Canterbury, where the visitors would be billeted by the local farmers. Later the Canterbury farmers would be the guests of the West Coast farmers. The interchange of ideas among the farmers should be of great value. On the journey in the train addresses would be given by an officer or officers of the Agricultural Department, and an officer of the Railway Department would talk of subjects of interest to farmers relating to the railways.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18057, 18 January 1927, Page 6
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135FARMERS’ TRAIN FOR WEST COAST AND CANTERBURY PROPOSED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18057, 18 January 1927, Page 6
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