NEW ZEALANDER IN ARGENTINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 86, 31 March 1908, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDER IN ARGENTINA.

ill!. 11. lI'LAREYS IMPRESSIONS. Jlr. 1!. W. Jl'Liren. a native of Wairarapa. who lias been for the past six years acting a- niatiag-i of a 10,1)00 acre cattle ranch. 3jo miles up from Buenos Ayrcs. Argentine, i- at pre-ent on a short visit lo New Zealand, and accorded an interview to the Dominion's Wairarapa correspondent. "Is it a fact, Mr il'Lareu, that the Americans are trying to monopolise the meat trade of South America!" '"Absolutely no doubt about it, so far as chilled beef is concerned. Swifts, a Chicago firm, have bought up the Cold Storage Company's works, erected, by tlie way, by an Australian syndicate, and the same company has also acquired a controlling interest in the La Blanea (Buenos Ayres) Works. It is freely said that once the Americans have got hold of the chilled meat business, they are going iu for frozen mutton. Of course, it may be years before the Argentine becomes a serious competitor : to New Zealand iu frozen mutton, because the people there are only just now I icing educated up in the fat lamb business, but, to far as chilled beef is concerned, the Argentine must take a bigger and bigger hand each succeeding year. Litxjr is cheap, and cattle grow luxuriantly fat on alfalfa, or, as you call it here, lucerne. On the place 1 am managing I have fattened about 30JO iwad ot cattle in a period of eight months. You can get an idea of the cattle business in tUc Argentine when I tell you that from 1500 to 2000 heal aie soid in the market at Buenos Ayres every morning. In auli'-vn, tln-y run through from 4tM)O to 10,000 sheep at the same time. There is at present tremendou- competition for chilled meat. Sheep, however, are not doing -•> well. The fanners have goine in for Lincoln- in the past, lmi they are now pushing Komneys and also 'black Kite-.'

"ilovv long do >ou thiiik it will bo before Argentine b.-eome- a -oriou- rival to the Dominion in frozen mutton:" "it may be twenty yr.tr-. I hf*ru w iil then lie much smaller areas lhan now. witu greater facilities for brooding the proper article. There nrv c number oi >"evv Zealandefe iu the Argentine, and they are nearly all managing big farm* 1 successfully, mid teaching all tlicy m-ow in the way of feeding -heep fur export. I hi- Argentine people know very well that tlioy are much in-aivr tlkmarket than New Zealatider- are. and. thN i- a knowledge uhi<li j-> constantly *purriug them on to greater efforts. Another p<»in! i» the pr»»-enee of Kng-li.-ii capital in i'u- pla<<-. 'J here ai" from >iukmi to '.Hvooo Knyli-lt people in Bueno- A\re-. jinl ihe\ own all the r.iilua}- and a grr.it amount of the busmen trade." i "1-* it worth hile N.-v. Zealand < •idering the i«>n »>t ojKMine. u]> a market nt -t»iil -}it' , p again in the Argentina:"

"Hard to siy. Tin* Now Zealand -heep whirh ha\e arrived there generally have been in -in.li a vvret-lo'-d eojidi'i"n that the people would not look «it them. Y< it i- a fact. 1 believe, that the New Zealand l-uid < 'ompmy'- re

«'*nt ••'•n-ionnient a\'*r,iged more tkin .or hngiUii one. but iin'y mu-'t l:av 4 . been r-aiv-i f..r i,hiill belter than ll'om- I -.i \ lie- Argentine people t!«i not won.l ii.it th«-\ p.»> i.>r a goon sheep. (*iie »»f tli'-tu paid •.lino f„r ,> IJiby-bred lain -oine month* ago. But {lk* aiiinuil- nm-i !•-• in Hi -1- ia~- .oiidi lion. And fie ri- i- ii" doiibi that ■ u<-Kngh-h l.nT«H»r» kn-.-u how !•» j..] avvav a -I'efTi for the foreign <»!iyi-i." "lion •- dairying going on:'

"Wiv. ;.on mav -,iv that th- A»g<"i ith- i- •'(»! -"am:ig thai industry. Ke\

nolds is running a big dairying business for Runciman anil Co. liuttcr is the thief product, but there are private cheese factories also/'

Mr. M'L;i)vi| is in New Zealand primarily for the purpose of obtaining another convert lor Argentine in the person of a Masterton lady, who is to return to the great continent as Mrs M'Larea.