The Waikato Independent TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930. OVERSEAS FARMERS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 3203, 25 February 1930, Page 4

The Waikato Independent TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930. OVERSEAS FARMERS.

On Wednesday (to-morrow) Cambridge will be visited by oveiseas farming represeutatlves to the number of nearly two hundred. Being Britishers and hailing from tha Mother Country, their visit is of more than usual interest and importance to this Dominion and to the Waikato. Not only will there be representatives from the Home land, but also from the far away African colonies, and possibly from our great sister Dominion, Canada. Owing to the unfortunate quarantining of the Aorangi at Auckland, maybe the Canadians will miss the visit to the Waikato, but they will join the party earlier than was first expected. One cannot estimate the value of such a visit to this Dominion which is in need of all the publicity that is possible to obtain, and with farmers coming to' an essentially primary-producing country one can appreciate that our visitors from overseas can be the very best advertising medium. Now in the few hours that the visitors will be in our district on Wednesday, it is impossible for them to obtain any real idea of the district's potentialities. In the hour or two that tbey are here whatever is seen must be in the nature of a cursory glance, and, or course, under such circumstances only a very vague impression can be formed of the district. It seems a great pity that with visits of this nature the arrangements should be of the rush order, but owing to the limited time usually at the disposal of visiting parties, the rush and bustle cannot be avoided. However, there is much that the local residents can do to send the visitors away with not only a good impression of Cambridge, but with some real idea of the nature of the district, the producing capabilities of the land ; the growth of primary production here; and all other matters that will be of interest to the traveller and of value to .the district, through being broadcasted by the visitor. It is to b.hoped, therefore, that to-morrow there will be hearty co-operation between town and country. Although the visitors will only have time to visit the Domain and the town, it must' not be regarded as in the light of a town affair. These visitors are genuine farmers and therefore their visit is of? direct interest to the local farming commun ty. A good representation of the district farmers will ensure that the visitors will go away with some knowledge of-the district from a farmer's viewpoint, and it is safe to say that local farmers will not lose anything by their association with the visitor?. We trust that when the British farmers arrive in Cambridge to-morrow they will be given a real British welcome, by a splendid representation of the district. ,