ELECTRICAL LEATHER.
The future of leather was the subject of gloomy prediction on tho part of Mr. W. F. Reid, past president of the International Association of Leather Trade Chemists, speaking at the biennial conference at the Leathersellers' Hall. He said that possibly the time might come when the industrial chemist might bo called upon to manufacture not only new tanning materials but even leather itself. Certainly the time would come when the area available for the production of the raw material of leather would be so limited in proportion to the needs of the human race that someone would have to produce a substitute. Even the electric furnace might in time produce material which would bo quite as efficient as tannin extracts for producing , leather of a kind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129ELECTRICAL LEATHER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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