THE PRICE OF LEATHER.
(Fnon Our Own Cop.ef.spoxdent.) GREYMOUTH, January 20. Boot importers on the West Coast ar« in receipt of advice from the New Zealand Manufacturers' Association stating that owing to the enormous increase in the cost of all leathers and fabric? used in the trade. it is compelled to increase the prices of many of the lines hitherto manufactured. The great increase in the cost of leather is caused by the very high prices now being .paid for hides and skins—the highest yet- known in the history of the industry.—and this is not by any means of a local character, as the same conditions exist in ovcry country throughout the world, and boot manufacturers everywhere have alreadv advised repeated rises in prices in the Dominion. The Canadian and American buyers arq the keenest competitors for hirlps and skins, and there appears to be no lu\\ mediate prospect of any decrease. On tin contrary, it is anticipated that highei prices will prevail.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 27
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163THE PRICE OF LEATHER. Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 27
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