STOCK RAISING IN CHILE.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 15 October 1920, Page 4

STOCK RAISING IN CHILE.

A visitor to Xew Zealand is 31 r i>. Voting, manager for Fociedad Explain doic do Tierru del Fucgo. a concern that runs 1.250,n00 sloop in Chile. Discussing marketing conditions M 1 Young informed a Christchurch *‘Sun" representative that seven freezing works were new operating in Chile, and both Armours and Nwiriwere Working iu the country. The majority of the works were owned by the producers, and the Xorth Amen can operators were not at all regarded as a menace to the meat-producing industry of Chile. Rather the reverse was Mr Young's opinion, the advent of the two American firms having given a decided stimulus to the trad- . “So long as the Xorth Americans don’t secure control of our shipping we are quite right." remarked Mr Young. Chile was practically 2300 niiles in length, varying in width from TO to 130 miles, the dividing range sharply cutting the territory front the remainder of the South American States. Labour was much cheaper than in the Dominion, a “gatherer." as a musterer is called, working for tor hours a day for practically a week for the equivalent of a day’s pay of a high country musterer in» the Dominion. Mr Young’s mission is to buy Corriedales ehielly. and he has secure! many thousands of pounds worth from j the leading breeders of the Dominion.