DIFFICULT COUNTRY TO ENTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 11

DIFFICULT COUNTRY TO ENTER

Generally speaking, South America was no place for European settlers, said Mr. Robert A. Campbell, in giving a representative of the Christchurch "Press" some impressions of his recent visit to the Latin republics. It was useless for young men, no matter what their attainments might be, to emigrate to the Argentine, Chile, or sister republics, unless they could speak Spanish very fluently. Even then it would be a very unwise move to go to South America "on spec." To do so would mean returning home ■sadly disillusioned. While in Buenos Aires, Mr. Campbell met two New Zealanders employed as buyers for Ves-

teys, and he also met a number of his countrymen located in executive positions in Chile. In all cases, however, they had been engaged for service in South America in advance of their leaving New Zealand. Nowadays, too, the South Americans were proving quite capable of filling the majority of higrily-paid executive and managerial positions themselves. Mr. Campbell commented that in any case, in the light of his own experience, South i America was a very difficult, country to enter. It cost him £8 15s for an Argentine visa of his passport, with another £3 5s for incidental expenses attached thereto. In addition, he had to submit to all his fingerprints being taken before the necessary visa was issued. He learned in official quarters that, the Argentine Government did not encourage visitors, although they were made to feel welcome enough once they did arrive.