GUMBOOTS
PURCHASE AND SALE
"That's nothing short of a racket if it's true," commented Mr H. EBlyde. chairman of the North Taranaki Primary Production Council, when* he said at a meeting of the council that he had been informed that some persons went to the dairy company stores in their districts, purchased three or four pairs of gumboots and took them to auctions where they realised £1. or He understood the gumboots had been sold from £•"> to I.js and that it had been reported to the authorities, said_ Mr F. L. Stout, M.P. ' / He heard ol' a case where a man mought JG pairs from his dairy store in Waikato, said Mir Blyde. From inquiries made at Wellington lie understood that 14,000 iniirs of gumboots had been received from Canada. Six thousand pairs were distributed to dairy factory stores and the balance' through a firm of lioot merchants. Some farmers, there fore, had been able to obtain gumboots, but there were more than 60,000 farmers and it was obvious that there were not nearly enough gumboots for all.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 15, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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178GUMBOOTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 15, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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