DEERSKIN LEATHER
Prospect of New Industry WINTER SHOW EXHIBIT TheVe would seem to be every prospect in New Zealand for the marketing of deer skins, from which footwear for alpine tramping, mustering, golfing, motor gauntlets, ladies’ dress gloves, etc., can be made. An interesting exhibit at the recent winter show at Christchurch showed what could be made of deerskins. Mr. H. Lightband proposes to repeat the exhibit at the winter show to open in Wellington to-morrow. “We are trying to do what is possible to cope with the deer menace,” remarked the Minister of Internal Affairs. Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, when interviewed regarding the matter. “Our trouble has been to exterminate the pest of which the farmers have complained. I think it will be conceded that the Department of Internal Affairs, with the ‘drives’ it has made on the deer herds doing such damage, particularly in the South Island, has not in any way slackened in its efforts to lessen an agricultural and forestry evil so apparent to-day. In my opinion the work now undertaken in providing a market at fairly good prices for deerskins for useful commodities will tend to help in the destruction of a pest so widely complained of.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 283, 26 August 1931, Page 10
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204DEERSKIN LEATHER Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 283, 26 August 1931, Page 10
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