A GLOMMY OUTLOOK
■ -' ' . ■ - . ;.v'| m The past'year was a particularly, tiry.J:'i i*"_ period'; for the tanning.' industry; *_-.- "Tanners-were unanimous in their r'e- ■_': marks that the"industry was in a far. ..v':, from satisfactory state,, and that a'con-. ;', tinuance' >'(.f the ; present* conditions ..-.j would se£;.a serious decline, in a very- -;; few years," says the Government .Stat-' '/■ istician. ,^'The .causes of this unsatisA factory state'were;' (1) The slack times '{' obtaining 'in. the.' boot and .shoe indus- £ try, following on. increased importations '••_.:. of boots-'^n'd. shoos; (2) the decrease i;. in the d'ttnaiid fpr leather for. leather .-. goods ancf bags, due to increased im- * _ portations'.of these lines, and the dis-v-j placemenTof the cheaper lines of lea.'.•j ther bags,"etc., by. substitutes; and- (3) H the gradual deoline.in the demand for * j leather in" tho saddlery and harness *« business, due to tho increasing use Jof the motor m preference to the ';| Jorae.*?
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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146A GLOMMY OUTLOOK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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