THE METROPOLIS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1290, 29 August 1914, Page 4

THE METROPOLIS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

Buenos Aires, the metropolis of South America, is a wonderful city with a wonderful country behind it. To begin with, it is larger than any British city except London. With its magnificent public buildings, boulevards, its opera-houses, and cafes with white-aproned waiters, you might well imagine yourself in Paris. The city has well-organised police, tramcar services, and one ot the most up-to-date telephone systems in the world, while as a shipping port it trades with almost every civilised country. The vast plains of Argentina which lie behind it across the great Continent to the Andes produce for Europe all the main requirements in the way of food. The cattle ranches, with their miles of paddocks, produce the best of cattle without extra feeding, and to visit any one of them is to visit a stud farm of stock of the best description. Connected with these ranches are the great meat “packing” factories, as well as the extract companies of worldwide renown. These lands, although they pay right well in cattle, are, however, found to be still more valuable for corn growing purposes, and consequently the ground is being gradually ploughed up, and the cattle are moving further south to less productive soil. The lines of grain elevators towering along the dock sides of Buenos Aires speak for the enormous quantities of corn which are now being exported year by year. On the far side of the great plains, at the foot ot the Andes, are mile after mile of vineyards, producing wine which can hardly meet the demand already made for it.