SCARCITY OF HIDES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 9 November 1912, Page 5

SCARCITY OF HIDES

DUE TO OVER-EX.FQJRT. -j;

PRICE OF LEATHER RAIDED.

{ United Pbxss "Association. >;

PALMERSTON," Npv;';B. A conference "of representatives : p£.'live tanning industry from ail over the -'Jspo* minion, was held here ' 'r.u

It was resolved to irtereaee the PfieiP 61 leather by Id per lb.; (It-• will make \g> difference to the wholesale bootmakers of about 30 dozen pairs' bf .boots;. 'The'.'rea6pn for the increase is the "scarcity, of hides owing to the. quantity •beingj jexpoi'ted. Hides are going chleffy to couver, and ; the export trade' is said' t<f» be almost exclusively in • the Jiangs, bfi one firm, whose headquarters at£a(fc Auckland. Tanners suggest that She situation "might be saved' by 1 t* e duty of imported boots, othbJFiWiso the local bootrhakihg industry .is/serious--ly threatened. The president of the conference. Informed a "Manawatu Daily Times" reporter that it was not'' unlikely that there will be a. further increase in the price of leather shortly if hides do not become more plentif.nl. He ■ suggested! that an export duty be placed on: raw hides. At the hide sales, at Palmerstoru.;;todav ox hides jumped up ,iby : ;a v penny pe r lb, the prices now be.ing up.'to equal to nearly £2 5s per hide. " Cow hides '.increased, "by to |d, and fetched 'iyp- to. 73-d. equal to nearly 30s ' each. ;'Calfc" skins sold at 6s per : skin.' This is an ad"'vance of 3s 9d on cow hides, and '4s'j 93 on ox hides. New Zealand tampers require over 40CO" hides per weekl '