Lost £8,000,000 in Ten Years
DAMAGE TO HIDES IN AUSTRALIA
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, Midnight. SYDNEY, Nov. 17. Within the past ten years the wastage in hides duo chiefly to careless branding, slaughtermen’s knives and barbed wiro cost tho Australian leather industry £5,000,000. Tho master tanners are appealing to cattlemen to brand on the shoulder in letters not more than three inches in length. They declare great damage is done through unsatisfactory branding and flaying, often amounting to 10s por skin. Improving Quality of New Zealand Hides Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the Houso to-day the Estimates wore further considered in Committee of Supply. Replying to an inquiry by Mr. A. J. Murdoch when the vote for the Scientific and Industrial Research Dopartment was under discussion, Mr. Forbes said somo freezing companies by altering their processes had improved the quality of hides for export. Efforts were still being made to eliminate faults and the prospects were encouraging.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7008, 18 November 1932, Page 7
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