DEAR LEATHER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 January 1913, Page 5

DEAR LEATHER

AND DEARER BOOTS. Some interesting remarks on tfie subject of the price" of leather, and consequently on the price of boots, were made to a Post representative by Mr Robert Hannah, who had just returned from a trip to England. As an instance of the great demand fhat exists, he stated that he knew of a case in which one of the leading tanners in England received three consignments of hides for his own special use, but before lie landed them he was offered 9Jd per lb (for the raw material—a price never heard of before. Naturally, he accepted the offer. All over the world the vise in the price of leather was taking place. There were large stocks in tho Balkans, but they could not get them away on account cif the wav, Apart from that, however, 'the demand for leather lvas so great, and the production was net increasing, that it would not be complied .with, andi the natural result was an increase in price. The price of leather had igooe up 5 per cent on three different occasions during the last three months. This meant, of cour.se. that the price of boots had gone up correspondingly, and m»m! T facturcrs would not accept forward) orders even at the last notation. England, he added, .had never been so busy as at present. Manufacturers' are chary of accepting immediate orders; they would prefer them at foilier six months.