Farmers' Excursions

None of the enterprises that have been undertaken by the Railways Department in recent years has given a more gratifying proof of the fact that they are supplying a service pleasing to the Department's clients than the various Farmers' Excursions that have been organised.

This movement was started about three years ago, and from the first trip, when special efforts were made to make the outing attractive, the movement has extended until, this season, four major Farmers' Excursions are being run through the Dominion. These are now on, the winter being the time at which farmers can most conveniently be spared from the work on the land to pay visits to other parts of the Dominion. Two big excursions are being run from the South Island to the South. So popular have these excursions become, that, in Christchurch, it was found necessary to arrange for the despatch of two trains to convey the Canterbury farmers. Each of the excursions has been filled up from nominations received in the districts, without any special advertising by the Railway Department.