PRESERVATION OF SKINS.
HIGH PRICE FOR OPOSSUMS
TRAPPER'S SECRET PROCESS. [nv TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON. Thursday. A statement that 17s was secured per skin by a trapper who had a process of his own for curing opossum skins, against 6s paid to the majority of trappers, was made at the Acclimatisation Society's meeting last night by Mr. J. S. Fleming, who asked whether is would not be in the interest of the industry for all skins to be similarly treated. The owner of the process, ho said, would not divulge it.
" That would not prevent him getting tho price," remarked a member. Another said there might be too many nicely-cured skins. The chairman, Mr. L. O. 11. Tripp, stated that the society's rangers endeavoured to give all the trappers advice on tho curing of skins. The 17s skins in question were stated by a member who had seen them to be as soft as chamois leather. Givcerine was suggested as tho possible foundation of the exclusive process, and an angler present contributed the information that gut casts kept in pure glycerine lasted interminably. lie had known good fish caught on casts five years old which wero impregnated with glycorine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19303, 16 April 1926, Page 12
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199PRESERVATION OF SKINS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19303, 16 April 1926, Page 12
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