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THE PRICE OF HIDES. • A ANTICIPATED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Government has definitely decided to-stop commandeering hide.-?. Auctions will consequently recommence next week. Export is now allowed, hut owing to tlic shortage of shipping; space, and preference for foodstuffs it is not expected to get hides*" away. Tanners requirements only cover about 40 per cent, of the hides produced, and considering that New Zealand prices have been ruling considerably above outside vales it is expected that the market will decline 20 per cent.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 April 1918, Page 7
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