"ARGENTINE EXHIBITION A FAILURE."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 8

"ARGENTINE EXHIBITION A FAILURE."

:'' . ] OCEANS OF MONEY SPENT. . SIDE-LIGHTS ON THE SHOW- ' fi Mr. James Knight, of Feilding, re- i ... turned to Now Zealand by tho Rua- 1 peku, which arrived in Wellington yes•terday. While away, Mr- Knight visited J L - the Argentine and tho centenary eslii- j iition, and toured portions of England, j In an interview with a Dominion j .jreprosentative, ho said that he Iliad t i r ■ 'been much disappointed with the big ; ■ ' exhibition. Owing,to bad management ' the. various departments'wore in mcorn- 1 . ■ pleto Stages. when he . left, and great 1 ■ pumbers of visitors had to leavo for J i their countries thoroughly disappoint- I ed. A result of the mismanagement, he : j •«akl, was that oceans of money were < ; .spent fruitlessly, . 1 Certainly tho agricultural show in I ■the beautiful Palermo grounds, where i l the. buildings for the stock are magni- ] ificent, was to a farmer, a great treat. ;"... ..'The Shorthorn cattlo were themselyos ] -.a.-show worth seeing. "I hardly think < i . . : they would be beaien in any part oft i ; >the world. The sheep as a whole were 1 .not so good. The Now Zealand Rom- i : tueys taken over by Mr. Ernest Short ' istood right out. on their own, and were : ■a • distinct] credit •to our country., < "As Mr. Short wa-s' ill for six weeks 1 of the time wo were there, we did not j get about t-lio country as much as we lad intended, • but I had the pleasure j of. being taken over several, 'largo < ! estates by Mr. Stent, who some years I i ago went over to the Argentine from ] i • -Neiw Zealand, and has done well for ! ; himself. I believe the Argentine is a i i good country for anyone with a . large ; amount of capita], but it is not the i country that 'I should advise anyone ] ;' .with small capital to go to. I am fully I ; convinced that for_ the man with small or moderate means there is no better. ] country than New , Zealand—for the i . British subject at auy rate. The con- i j: . editions of life • in. ths. Argentine- art : !. . go very, different to New Zealand con- j . ditions, • and there aro so. many unexpected, drawbacks to. encounter— i ■ drawbacks which • at. a - distance ap- i pear to he trifles, but on a near ap- ; proach are very .ugly. We in New Zea- . land have many advantages which I only realised when, I ■ had an opportunity of comparing the Dominion with •' other countries. As far. as 1 could gather the large capitalist has .'in the Argentine tho finest field.in the world r. . for'the profitable , investment of his . funds." . ; I England with its toy. fields, its hedges, arid narrow, .crooked, lanes was looked : ' upon by Mr. Knight as a pleasant .change from the Argentine,, where tho ■3and is level and bare as far as tho ■eye. can see. j_. • . Mr. Knight regards the K«public as ,a great country, - which will • become greater.. When describing -.Buenos Ayres, he mentioned that-there" was a . wool store at ihe port which had 27 -acres of floor space.• ; ANARCHISTS, STRIKES, AND , ! . MARTIAL LAW. i 'ANOTHER'REASON FOR THE FAILURE. [ . - ■ .Mr.' of Christchurch, also /Teturned by the : Ruapehu from the VArgentino and England. • Speaking of the show, Mr. Davenport !. . «aid that the display of stock was mag- ' ■ uificent. Ho was particularly impressed i (by .the scale on which, the buildings for rthe housing of the stock ■ had been planned. Respecting the Shorthorn .cattle, he reckoned that 'never before : !■ Jhad such great quality been' got together. . . : ; . Of the exhibition, he said that the whole affair was marred by . the inter-tnal-unrest which was passing over the ■city.of Buenos Ayres at tho,time.._An- ! i;, archists were feared, there were strikes, , : iand there was', martial law. People .were cautious about visiting or staying ;tn the city, and ' the exhibition was robbed of success., . . t . "The sheep,'' said Mr. Davenport. ' '"were housed handsomely, and 1 wish ; . . 1 could see such'.buildings erected at . /iChristohurch and Palmerston North." . '' • Mr. Davenport, judged some of the . .; . cattle and sheep at the show, including' rthe Romney Marsh division.. It is note-. , . worthy that while Mr. Davenport rerceived no monetary reward, tho Eiig- ' 't ■ .Oisli judges at the show got big cheques, i :!• ■. -and had their expenses paid. The prizes . and tho honours in the Romney section ;'iwent to Mr. E. Short, and his suc- ■ cess was well deserved. Before . 'the j. : - ijudging took place the English breeders v / scented danger, and feeling, ran high. ' : "I' would like to say," concluded Mr. . \ -Davenport,. "that Mr. Short is a man ' .. jivhose enterprise, might well he-follow-. . , :«d by. those Who have tho future of ■ 'New' Zealand ■ in • stock matters - at. : .1 jheart. Where ho sees an improvement : " , ,can be made, price does not stop him, will be seen by the stock he is ..'bringing out on.the Rotorua."