EMBARGO ON HIDES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17779, 30 January 1920, Page 5

EMBARGO ON HIDES.

PUZZLE FOR THE GOVERNMENT. (Per Press Assoeiatiqn.) WELLINGTON, January 29. The embargo on hides was a subject of interviews by two deputations which waited on the Prime Minister to-day. The first, a deputation representative of producers and freezing companies of the Wairarapa district, asked for the removal of the embargo, and then a deputation representing the boot trade asked that on no account should the embargo be removed. In the course of his reply,-Mr. Massey said the Government was anxious to do its duty by producers and also to consumers. If that bad not been the case there would not have been any embargo in the first instance. He hoped the time would soon come when no raw material would be exported from this country, but the whole of out raw material would be converted into manufactured goods before being exported. Both sides of this question were fully thrashed out at the recent Conference. He promised that the Government would consider the matter fully, and he hoped that a conclusion would be reached which would be satisfactory to the whole community, but he could tell them that the present position of things was causing a great deal of agitation throughout the whole country; and was the cause of a great deal of annoyance to thff Government. What the Government would do he was not prepared to say, but he hoped to be able to announce a decision within a week or two.