WHERE EVERYBODY WORKS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 4

WHERE EVERYBODY WORKS.

(11. K. I’owcll-.lones in “Daily Mail.”) LONDON. Aug. 11. Of (lie millions who arc menially billowing the I’rinee on his lour many will picture tile Argentine as a tropic land and gaiety aml piet uivsq He idle-

Lct us remove any false impression : Argentina is no! in the tropics, and life l Imre is very far from Icing idle. In Buenos Aires itself il is a strenlicus affair. Kven it you call .squeeze an unexpected day off' it is mil much good to you unless you arc of tlm rare type i hat can he happy idling alone. I’or in Buenos Ayres we all wa.rk as hal'd as w e (an and save up mil il we lime enough money and leave lo come

over lo Furope. where the art ol idling n understood. .Dei as Buenos Ayre.s itself is the chief commercial centre for the whole of Hie Republic, so is business, coin men e, “his iieguen s. Hie hinge mi which l urns the whole liie ol Buenos Aires. In short. Buenos Aires is a good place m work in, hut a very po ir place to he out ol ! work in. 11l a walk (I'M il the fa.'hi- liable ('idle iMirida, in the late afternoon, when the Street is t losed lo vehicular traffic for a couple of h mi's, we shall meet almost every language under hue sun. Blit everyone is linking ol the same universal tonic: "pesos." “plata.” ‘' iicgoeios.” “battens,” “pagarcs, “merciideria” - dollars, money, business. hanks, proinisHory notes. and gi li ids. Thai, is oia< reason why the Argentine Republic has made such wonderful progress during these hundred years that have elapsed since tla- first treaty of Amity. Commerce, and Navigation was signed between Groat Britain and tlk* Federated Stales oi the River Plate. .

Another reason, of course, is that her ama.-ing fertile soil produces vast quantities of two staple products meat and

And .1 third reason, by r.n means the least important, is that British investors bine endowed her with a complete system and net-work of railways, which have opened up the country fur development and enable her to move her products d turn to the coast lor shipment and to lake back to (lie interior the agricultural machinery, leiieing wire, textiles, linplale, and hardwaic which we ami other countries send out to South America. There is any amount of business to be done in Buenos Aires, any amount of money In he made and to he Inst for that matter. But it means hard work there just as everywhere else and the exercise of the same qualities and qualilii at ions that make lor success I ill business in oilier par's ot the world.

ll is well worth while to -ay again what has been said before: Argentina is a buying nation and has the markels of the whole world from which to pick and choose. She buys extensively, even royally, and there is keen ennipetit ion fur her orders. British goods no longer s,.|| themselves merely by being Bullish. Oilier things being equal, the I’.ril r li ariidc enjoy.- a preference be-rau-e ot the I rai lit jo mil good quality ot our ilia unfurl 'll.-s : but ot her t liillgs hum be equal, price and delivery and ci vice. I often w under w liet.'icr it would nut lie a good tiling for some of our manufacturers sometimes to imuiiifacturo down to the price requirements of these markets instead of up in their own high standard of quality.