SOUTH AFRICA
COUNTRY WITH FUTURE
AUCKLANDER'S IMPRESSION'
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tho Evening Post.") . AUCKLAND, 131.h .May. In the near future South Africa may. become- a serious competitor for Australia and New Zealand in tho wool market of the world, says Mr. T. Fhileox; of Auckland, who has just returned from an extended holiday trip. Accompanied by Mrs. Phileox, he spent about IS months in South Africa.
South Africa is a country with a great future, ho says. Wool production is being undertaken sciiousljy'nnd there are now about 40,000,000 sheep in the Union. The South African sheep farmers are paying up to £5000 for stud rams from Australia. They have some fine grazing country, and labour is absurdly cheap. It costs only a halfpenny to shear a sheep.
The country is so varied that numerous crops could be grown in different parts. Fruit farms have been developed to a wonderful extent, an illustration of the growth being provided by the fact that one fruit farmer lost 2500 tons of 'fruit in one hailstorm. i
Small quantities', of New Zealand butter are exported to South Africa. A surprising feature is that it is sold at Is Od a pound, whereas South African butter, to his mind much inferior, is sold at Is 9d a pound. Naturally New Zealand could not build up a large export trade in butter at Is Od, but ho is of opinion that there is a large and important market tor our butter in South Africa waiting developments There ,are difficulties, in, shipping, _of course, as there is no direct communication between the two countries.
SOUTH AFRICA
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 13
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