ARGENTINA AS RIVAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 4

ARGENTINA AS RIVAL

It is not to be wondered at that (lie Argentine has proved a stumbling block to the settlement of tile meat question at the Ottawa Conference. An enormous amount of England's capital is invested in Argentina. One authority placed the total of these investments at 800 millions sterling. Statistics prove the power of South American producers—mostly Argentine farmers—as competitor-, of the producers of Britain Overseas. Last year New Zealand son( 19,100 toils of beef to England, Australia sent 57,007 tons, but Sint h America scut 312,422 tons! New Zealand sent 173,473 toils of mutton and ‘lambs, Au-tralia 70,602, South America 105,206 tons. It Argent4m, as a foreign country, canto under the- proposed quota it womb! give a decided fillip to our beef export trade.