20,000,000 PAIRS BOOTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 269, 10 February 1941, Page 6

20,000,000 PAIRS BOOTS

RESULT FROM BRITISH TANNERS* 1940 RECORD British tanners ol' sole leather have achieved one of the country's finest industrial records for 10-10. They have successfully carried thro-, ugh a colossal expansion of output in order to supply the Services with 20,000,000 pairs of boots during the year and in addition they have amply met the demand from civilians at home and overseas. The. increase in output is estimated at 50 per cent. Hides have been shipped to Britain from 00 overseas ports to meet it, a big proportion of them from the enormous cattlc resources of the Empire, put at 40 per cent of the world's total livestock. South America has provided another vast wartime reservoir. Argentina, with its 00,000,000 cattlc on the hoof, has sent consignment after consignment of hides of high quality thanks to the increasing care of Argentina cattlc and to the scientific methods which have been introduced into flaying processes. Uruguay, Colombia and Brazil have all of them sent welcome cargoes across the Atlantic too. Working tanners have speeded up production by intensifying their mechanical and scientific methods and the British Sole Leather Tanners' Association has planned production in a practical way to prevent vio-

lent pricc fluctuations. The resulting output has not only allowed Britain

to have 400,000 pairs of service boots a week, but in the midst of the Avar British tanners arc now exporting sole leather made to suit the cli-

mates of many markets overseas,