REDUCE COST

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 January 1932, Page 6

REDUCE COST

(Continued) market, aixd the quality was'steadily iruproving. There were vast areas of ideal sheep pasture in the Southern Argentine and with the advantage of nearer naarkets in their favour, the Argentine sheep farmers were in a strong {position. Beef Export Beef export was the greatest priinary produeing activity of fhe Argentine, and very up-to-date methods were pursued in this direction. On the rich black loam of the cattle grazing country 2i-year-old beasts would average 750 to 8001bs dressed weight, and owing to the breeding and grazing methods adoptgd, quality and weight were being steadily improved. Of late years the tendeney had been to obtain lighter weight animals between 600 and 700 dressed. This approaehed more closely to the United States "balby bqef" and was excellent in quality. / Level Country The cattle grazing country was sown in "alfalafa" or lucerne, whicn provided excellent fattening pasture. For 500 to 600 miles inland from Buenos Aires, the country was as level as a billiard tahle and as little if any clearing was required, it had been very quickly brought into productivity. The whole of the Argentine provided wonderful grazing country and its level nature enabled it to be brought in very rapidly and at a comparatively low cost. British and American capital had played a large part in the development of the country and there was still room for a great deal of development in that direction. British influence was fully holding its own and with its extending interests, British capital had a very powerful holding in the country. Lower Cost of Living The cost of living to the world ng man was very mueh lower in the Argentine than in New Zealand, aml Mr. Lambe expressed the opinion that a very necessary step in this country was a reduction in this direction Workers rentals should be decreased and a determined effort made to reduce the cost of household commouities. Mr. Lambe has visited New Zealand and Rotorua on a number of occasions and had a very warm word of praise for Rotorua as a tourist ceatre. He had travelled all over the world, he sta,ted, but Was always pleased to return to Rotorua. No tourist town in the world had the same varied attraetions to ofrer the tvaveller, and he thought that these attraetions should be developed and advertised by every possible means. ' Since his last visit to the Rotorua district, he had been particularly im^ressed by the progress which was being made in land development. There was a great deal of very productive country only awaiting development in the Rotorua district and he thought that as matters were proceeding at present, the future of the town was assured. In his view, land development and assistance to the primary producer offered New Zealand the only possible means of combating the depression. The primary producer was the man who held the future of tho country in his hands, but he was being called upon to carry a very heavy burden. Departmental expenditure in the Doniinion appeared to him to be very heavy, and there appeared to bavc been a fuilure to recognise until too late, the inevitable effect of motor transport upon the railway system. In a country of a million and a half population, also, an education vote of £1,500,000 appeared to be disproportionately large.