THE TANNING INDUSTRY.
A DECLINING BUSINESS. EFFECT OF IMPORTATIONS. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, December 6. The past year was a particularly trying period for the tanning industry. ‘‘The tanners are unanimous in their remarks that the industry is in a far from satisfactory state, and that a, continuance of the present conditions will see a serious decline in a very few years,” says the Government Statistician. The causes of this unsatisfactory state were: 1. The slack times obtaining in the boot and shoe industry, following on the increased import, tions of boots and shoes. 2. The decrease in the demand for leather for leather goods and bags, due to the increased importations of these lines and the displacement of the cheaper lines of leather bags, etc., by substitutes; 3. The gradual decline ■in the demand for leather in the saddlery and harness business, due to the increasing use of the motor in preference to the horse.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19966, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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