EMBARGO ON HIDES.
BENEFITS A FEW AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MANY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrljhl Dunedin, Last Night. The embargo on the export of bides and skins was severely criticised to-day by u business man, who asserted that the effect of the Government regulations was to put immense profits into the pockets of a few at the expense of the many The Government's scheduled list of pricM, he said, eliminated all, competition, tta tanners they wanted and caving the poorer classes on the agents' hands. When the rejects were offered at auction they realised more for export than the tanners paid for the best. He also asserted that leather was recently exported from New Zealand to a market where almost famine prices ruled and complained that while leather was Is to is Id per lb. higher than at the begins!*? ? ,Y nr ' U,e vendor of hides got IJi to lb. more.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1919, Page 4
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151EMBARGO ON HIDES. Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1919, Page 4
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