TANNING.
Our settleinent lias been upwards of three years established, and we are still paying away cash for imported leather. Why do> we allow our capital to go out of our hand»4o enrich other colonies while we have abundence of materials to render us independent of them? Indeed, instead of importing, we ought now to be able to export tanned hides, as the best of barks can be had for the stripping, and the butchers are willing to contract to sell skins at a very cheap rate. A good active Tanner, commencing at present, might in the course of a very short period become wealthy—as it is a trade which in the mother country leads to independence ; and here where every article con-* nected with the business is so cheap, an industrious man could not fail to realize a fortune. At all events, as a colonial manufacture it ought to be attempted.
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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 54, 15 August 1844, Page 2
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