LEATHER HIDES.
DAMAGE BY BRANDING
(Bt Tklmbaph.) (Froii Oci Parliamentary Repobtih.)
WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. Mr Okey (Taranaki) to-day asked the Minister of Agriculture whether seeing tho heavy low to the producers of th* l Dominion through tho damage caused to hides by firo-hranding, ho would cause inquiries to ho made a 6 to tho possibility of providing a auitablo gubstitute? Evidence had boon given, he ■aid, before the Imperial Trade Commission by the chairman of the leather section of the London Chamber of Commerce that it wns estimated that Australia lost £1,500,000 annually because of damage caused to hides by fire-brand-ing.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9588, 4 September 1913, Page 7
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101LEATHER HIDES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9588, 4 September 1913, Page 7
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