Trade With South America The Prince of Wales is on
his way home after two strenuous and triumphant months in South America. He undertook a tremendous task and carried it through with selfless devotion. He will return to a country where the effects. of his mission are, even so soon after the event, food for something more than optimistic conjecture: Sir William Morris, who arrived home from South America last week, estimates that we should more than double our trade with Argentina in the very near future, and enthusiastic reports are coming in on many sides which emphasize the immense service done to British trade by the Prince's opening of the Exhibition at Buenos Aires: Industrialists would do well to study closely conditions in the Argentine. Signs are not lacking that the Republic, hitherto primarily an exporter of raw products, is under- going transition from an agricultural and pastoral com- munity to a state of relative industrialization. As a field for employment the country offers possibilities at the moment unrivalled.
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