LATIN AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 13

LATIN AMERICA

divisions outuned to ROTARY CLUB

Th® tremendous natural distinctions Latin America, the history of the formation of its numerous States, ethnological points concerning greatly m i*ed peoples and economic aspects of fo® countries, were outlined to the Notary Club yesterday by Profes®°r C. Sperrln-Johnson.

Professor Sperrin-Johnson’s lecture Wa * J Uuatrated hy lantern slides. The defined Latin America as the p °rtlons of the new world colonised Principally by the Spanish and the ; or riiguese. There were 17 republics; *Polte Spanish and only Brazil used 1,6 knguage of Portugal. There were indigenous races, notably the tec *. the Nahuas, the Mayas and the nca *. and the colonising races were cc °mpanied by a strong African negro best marked in Brazil. f Cloning the wats of liberation oni Spain about 100 years ago, the referred to Bolivar as the conspicuous figure among the Orators.

t , a udience was given a descripnatural history from the Rio fontp i River south through Mexico, w •* America, and the States on the •lime- 0 . S°iith America, crossing the Di ca . J n three places. Tho rich tro\inerj * orest extending from Central d * deeply into South America of ‘Cribed, and t.he speaker spoke he wz k «* onsiciera hle desert regions on North-/* of South America. In *blo anrf t-hile, there were considerable de P° sit K of nitrates and °f ln describing the pampas 'ho the speaker mentioned with E»l try 8 part In the meat trade Argentina had an ad- ' l ? numerous waterways ' v °rks. K rh eap transit to the freezing s* alter Itoyle, Consul for ‘ >De hln r l Stat es, thanked Professor clut. J °“nson on behalf of Uio