LAMBS SKINS.
DEFECTIVE TREATMENT. LONDON, Tuesday. Mr G. W. Forbes this afternoon inspected the processes whereby Messrs. James Garnar and Sons transform New Zealand lambskins # into a marvellous variety of leathers, including imitation crocodile, shake, goatskins, moroccos for book-binding, and leathers indistinguishable -from tweeds. Mr Forbes'lehmed that while some New Zealand pelts were first class, •others suffered from strains in skinning and defective treatment, reducing the value at least 4d apiece. The firm is experimenting on behalf of the Empire Marketing Board in search of the best form of treatment recommendable to New Zealand. Better treatment of the pelts meant at least an additional £150,000 a year to New Zealand. Mr Forbes later visited the Aircraft Operating Company and was shown the latest apparatus for aerial surveys by photographs.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 October 1930, Page 5
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