No Clothes Rationing in Argentina

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5329, 15 February 1947, Page 3

No Clothes Rationing in Argentina

i _ — | The absenee of clothes and food j rationing is oue of the few dili'erences i i.n tiie general living cunditions o:i an j Argentum "estanecia" and Arstralian j dioep station, ac-cording to Mrs. ; f'osmo Gihson, who recently arrived j in Sy.iney from the Argentine. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have left their j four children, Herbert, Yvonne, Rox- j aua, and Cosmo ("Cosmito") at home j driing their visit to Australia. . i Exeept for summer holidays in i Englar.d, Mrs. Gibson has lived all her j life in the Argentine. Iler husband's | pr-oper-ty, where he breeds pedigree Romney Marsh anil Lincoln sneep j | is aliout 1 o() miles from Buenos j Aires. Duriiig a short stay in Australia ! before iiying to. New ZealanJ, Mrs. j Gibson visited a country station at ! Bathvvst and was impressed by the j similarity of conditions in the two j eountries. As in Australia, Mrs. 'Gibson' said, , most Argentine "station wives" take | an active interest in their properties. j "I am very interested in sheepyas | I was bovn 021 an esLaucia and have j spent most of rny life in the country," , she said. "In New Zealand I. am j goir.g to spend practically all my time i looking at sheep studs with my hus- | ban-d." i "Srnall villages are seattered about the country, ba.t most shopping, especially for clothes, , is doire in Buenos Aires. A branch store 'of Harrods of London supplies imported clothes. Nylons are more plentiful than in the United JStates and can he ! bought at any small store. "In the United States nylons retail | at less than 10/-, but in the Argentine ; they sell at about 30/-," Mrs. Uibson | said. j