HIDE AND SKINS EMBARGO.
BUSINESS MAN’S ANEW OF NEW REGULATIONS.
IMMENSE PROFITS ALLEGED TO GO INTO POCKETS OF FEW.
Press Association Telesrram. DUNEDIN, August, 8. The embargo on tho export of hide and skins was severely criticised today by a business man who asserted that the effect of tho Government regulations was to put immense profits into the pockets of a tow at the expense of many. The Government’s scheduled list of prices, he said, eliminated all competition, the tanners taking what they wanted and leaving the poorer classes on the agents’ hands. When the rejects were offered at auction they realised more for export than tho tanners paid for the host. Ho also asserted that leather was recently exported from New Zealand to a market where almost famine prices ruled, and complained that while leather was Is to Is Id per lb higher than at the beginning of the war the vendor of hides was getting only ltd to 2Jd per Ih more.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5244, 8 August 1919, Page 5
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164HIDE AND SKINS EMBARGO. Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5244, 8 August 1919, Page 5
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