THE ARGENTINE GAMBLE.
A New Zealander, now resident in Buenos Aires, writing to ia friend in Ohristchurcli, states that things are going from bad to worse in that country. Six or seven years ago a good man could get work at once, while the wages were 50 per cent-, better than they were at presnt. Year by year the rents had been going up, while the expense of working a business and living had advanced. The big firms were feeling the pinch, and had been curtailing expenses for som'e time. In the agricultural districts things were quite, as bad./ The poor cropper had been squeezed between the landlord and the storekeeper, till there was not even a living for him on the land. Land speculation had run away with the country. In fact, ths whole thing in Argentine was a gamble. A goo 3 svaso-i might m a fortune and a bad one ruin, but a crash must come, find I that before long.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 4
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164THE ARGENTINE GAMBLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 4
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