SKINNING OF LAMBS
LOSS FEOAt. DEFECTIVE TREATAIENT.
(United Preen Association—By 'Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON. Oct. 21.
Air Forbes this afternoon inspected tlie processes whereby Alessrs James Garnar and Sons transform New Zealand lambskins into a marvellous variety of leathers, including imitation crocodile snake, goatskins, moroccos for book-binding, and leathers indistinguishable from tweeds.
Air Forbes learned that while some New Zealand pelts were first class, others suffered from strains in skinning and defective treatment, reducing the value at least 4d apiece. The firm is experimenting on behalf of the Empire Marketing Board in search of the best form of treatment recommendable to New Zealand. Better treatment of the pelts meant at least an additional £150,000 a year to New Zealand. Air Forbes later visited the Aircraft Operating Company and was shown, the latest apparatus for aerial surveys by; ■ photographs.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 23 October 1930, Page 9
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