CLOTHING THE BRITISH ARMY
..ORDERS FOR SHEEPSKIN COATS. Orders for the supply of 50,000 sheepskin coats for' winter clothing for the !'British'Army will shortly bo plaoed in 'New. Zealand, through the Now Zea-land-Government. The ooate are to be ; without sleeves, fastened down the ifront with straps, and about as long as l-an ordinary tunic. About ail inch and fa half of wool will bei left on the skins. 'For the New Zealand troops winter coats of sheepskin are being made % .committees of women throughout the . jcountry, but these latter coats, are being jmade of skins without wool. The weight ;*>f the-sample coat for the British troops iis two pounds and a half.
Members of the Sixth Reinforcements. mad their friends will be interested to ileatn that the Hardie Shaw studios,. 63 '."Willis Street, have made special arrangements to take photographs at night, equal [•to> daylight photographs. ' The studio Hwill ba open to-night and to-morrow flight'from 6.30 to 10 o'clock. ' Mr. S. George Nathan, land agent 'land auctioneer, Customhouse Quay, has [a very interesting . advertisement in this pssue. The advertisement is full of plain I truths, and should prove very fruitful to the_ man of enterpnSD. : • ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2538, 12 August 1915, Page 7
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195CLOTHING THE BRITISH ARMY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2538, 12 August 1915, Page 7
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