"CORNERING" LEATHER TRADE.
THE STATEMENT DENIED. ■ (Per Press Association). Wellington, Last Night. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting to-day a complaint was received from the Auckland Tanneries' Employees? Union as to American methods of allegedly "cornering" the best hides in New Zealand, and suggesting that steps should be taken to prevent this. Otherwise the leather industry in New Zealand must suffer injury. Mr. Mabin. president, denied the ex* e istence of any "corner." It was simply 11 a question-of supply and demand, and New Zealand was getting the benefit. '' They could not prevent a grower selling in the best market. £ Mr. Biss: How does it afleet workers j in this industry? , Mr. Mabin: I don't know whether ' someone is not pulling the legs of the , workers. , It was decided to reply that the CharaI her did not consider the Union had made , out a case in support of its allegations.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19130211.2.79
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 225, 11 February 1913, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
150"CORNERING" LEATHER TRADE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 225, 11 February 1913, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in