IN THE ARGENTINE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 9

IN THE ARGENTINE

WORK FOR YOUNG MEN. NEW ZEALANDER RETI'KNS. WELLINGTON, June 30. The fact that many of the large cattle and sheep properties in tne Aigcntme aic managed by Australians and. New Zealanders was mentioned by Mr. M. S. MacKinnon, who arrived by the lonic to-day on his way to Sydney. He said that there were good openings in the Argentine for young men familiar with stock matters and willing to work for success. Air. MacKinnon left the Poverty Bay district Ixn years ago for the Argentine, where he is the manager of an extensive ranch, and in 1929 he paid a visit to New Zealand, taking back with I him a number of stud rams from the ISouth Island. New Zealand pedigree stock was highly esteemed in the Argentine, he said, and it was well suited by the climate. In time it, would not be necessary For certain areas to import stud animals because they would be able to maintain type and breeding without outside assistance, but other parts of the country would always have to import pedigree stock on account of the effect, of the climatic conditions. Mr, MacKinnon said that British capita] invested in the Argentine totalled £529.000.000, and this undoubtedly influenced the discussions on export quotas to Great Britain. Most of the money was invested in railways, land, and freezing works. The country was feeling the effects of the econoImic depression, but not, he thought, to the same extent as other parts of the world. Quotas were causing some concern, although the producers were