N SEARCH OF INFORMATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 2

N SEARCH OF INFORMATION

AX ENVOY FROM I'ERU. Uy Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Gerardo Klinge, of the Department of Development, Lima, Peru, South America. arrived ill New Zealand by the MoKoia to-day to study the agrieultural, pastoral and dairy conditions of Xcw Zealand on behalf of the Peruvian Government. It is Senor Klinge's intention ("'visit the Australian States on a similar mission later on. In an interview Willi a. l'ost reporter to-day, Senor Klinge stated that he had already visitill Canada, the United States of America, and the various South" Amevi- | can Republic... in search of knowledge. In niic million .square miles of territon-, he -aid, Peru embraced practical!v all climatic conditions, and could raise

iiliiuM every class of product-tropical I product* in t),<> t »ast. towards tlio Amazon: while the colder climate of Hie niitimUin*. and the si>mi-tropici*l near the coast. product* sugar, cotton, rubber, He.. fr»i* the Noi'th American markets', S(o<-k raising up to the present hnd M well developed owing to hick of I markets but it \vn< expected that when the Panama Canal was opened, and the I'liropean markets wire hirmfjiit nearer, tlii' development of Unit ini.l;". would rc"lK'"' attention. Tlu* ..rincipal ilairviiifr ouiinlry was situat. ' < lii.ulibml-, of the Amis.

I'i'ilvilij; am! wiml-prodiictiui, 11 (1 hugely carried on in the same territory. At present tin. only 1 n'ocil of sheen <nl 11 \:i 1 i-d is the nl ( | Spanish merino, lint the people en-ii-e.l in this liraiuli ot lllil list l'ln 1 pursuit, -,„ w j ltl)M , rt . sl '"' sll ' ,, 1 l troiil l';ilaeonia, which *"''cp, lie mentioned. ori«iiuilly came li'oin Australia.

Sen,,,. Klinjr,. expects to remain in New '"" ,: ' d "I'out two months, or longer if necessary. n 'I lie Scllor's explorations ill til,. »»i»."«».-.i him, parti™. • i'.v the possibilities of the en„nli v and Hie wonderful sl rides that had'beti, made 111 (he devcl.vpiiu; „f t|„> stocl;-rais- !»« industry. Dniryinj; was, coniparaliicl.y spealiiu- ah,lost in its infancy. . ii was lapidly advaiiciii" and promised well for the future. It. was Senor I Mi.ikcs Intention to make a thnrou«li mi estimation of faruiiii'jr methods as they are carried on in this country, boll, vately and by the State. ||,. intends yisitinjj th<. various Stale farms carried oil by the Covcrninc'ii, ami will also ' mal;c it tits business to inspect some of ' tin- leading farms in the Dominion.

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