NOTHING LIKE LEATHER.
The high price of boots caused a few enquiries to be made in Dunedin. ■ A gentleman in, the leather 'business, asked to explain the high cost of leather, said the one factor was the scarcity of leather all over the world; Even America, where;.at one time they could Ihiot:tan all the hides on their hands, was now. 'buying as' far afield as New Zealand' and competing with local buyers. It was almost impossible to procure heavy stout hides:. Italy supplied the world with its heaviest hides, hut even, that country was falling back ni the production. •■Years ago in New Zealand the hides were much heavier tham latterly. Nowadays the cattle wer& .slaughtered too young to produce heavy skins,;' the /skins, were not matured. Asked af .there was any prospect in the nejir future of a decline n\ prices, the' gen-.] tleman' answered in the negative, i '.'There is more likelihood of the opposite contingency taking place,'/ he ! said.. ' ' ', : i
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 4
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163NOTHING LIKE LEATHER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 4
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