SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 10

SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS MAN’S TRIP WONDERFUL COUNTRY Following a successful tour of South America. Mr. C. W. McLeod, of Messr? C. W. McLeod and Company, Svdnev* is able to report having arranged for direct shipments of produce from that country to Australia. He also has ! gained a very fine impression of South America. It is a very prosperous j country, he told a Sun representative cn the Niagara 3 esterday, and on° ! where Australians and New Zealander's j do well. Mr. McLeod, accompanied by Mrs. Mo. Lead, left Dunedin on the Ruapehu November and sailed direct to South America, via the Straits of Magellan a roilte, he said, that was not often taken. He called at T’unta Arenas Buenos Aires, Bahia and the British West Indies, afterward going on to New York and Canada. In South America, he thought there were good openings or young Australians and New Zealanders on the land, although he would advise anybody that was thinking of going to learn Spanish first. That, lie was the principal language ami it was very necessary. He said that Australians and New Zealanders had the re* putation of being very efficient and practical. Mr. McLeod’s firm handles a lot of produce from these countries, and the difficulty of obtaining direct shipments induced him to make the trip. People in Australia and New Zealand have no idea what a wonderful place South America is. particularly Buenos Aires and Rio De Janeiro, which he described as being almost as modern Mr. McLeod was also very impressed with the commercial thoroughness of the American, but he found that the way that they were handling the liquor question was making them appear ridiculous all over the world. Many of the Americans are now admitting that the whole thing is a farce, he said. Mr. McLeod was also greatly impressed with the shipping facilities on the South American coast. There were weekly services and 22,000-ton boats, he said, and the travelling was very comfortable. He said it was typical of a country which people on this sice knew very little a bon