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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 174, 22 July 1916, Page 9

■The position regarding the market for .pelts in Wndbn has been complicated byL the" fact" '-that ""the.— .B rit i ! •kli, Government has placed > ; .«" embargo on the sale or export of pickled pelts weighing 341b per down or less: This embargo is not likely -to appreciably affect freezing efieep " pelts, As very few of these weigh 34Jb> or under/but it will be seen that the embargo covere all Kew Zealand Jamb pelts. The Government h« placed * large order rith tanners in for jerkin leather, and the object.of the embargo: | is to make sure that tannere hare got . sufficient unpplies of raw material. Xol niekled pelts suitable for jerkin leather i! ihay. be eqU except to tannere giving a'; written undertaking that the skins. l>o"'tanned for that -pnrpoee, - endr'th'g;; fiic6 must-be the market price -here the 12th 'May. The authoritiee' arevliik-. inff atepa to decide what pelt* are «uit MJoia tor jerkin* and what are not, to as tp n\m*L Hm&m iTiiUbla. '