New Zealand made leather : the story of the Woolston Tanneries

New Zealand made leather: the story of the Woolston Tanneries  (1918) is the second of two booklets produced by Daniel Giles Sullivan (Christchurch trade union leader, journalist, M.P., city councillor and eventual Mayor) to promote the local leather tanning industry during World War I.

The booklet is covered in soft brown suede - presumably produced by its subject, Woolston Tanneries Ltd.  Sullivan expounds on the technological advances being made at Woolston, powered by electricity generated by the new Lake Coleridge hydro-electric station, in the foothills of the Southern Alps.  It was one of the first power stations built by the government and was needed to power the rapidly expanding industrial base in Christchurch in the first decades of the 20th century.

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