"Though there is a legislative enactment that provides that.all boot and shoo sellers purveying footwear other than that made of leather must label it accordingly, the unlabelled papersoled boot is," writes a correspondent, "still with us, and, with other footwear, has increased in price. Only recently; an irate customer gave a boot shop proprietor tlio length of her tongue, as she exhibited a worn shoo with a piece of cardboard sticking out as though flaunting the deception. It was understood that this sort of thing was going to he checked by inspectors attached to tho Labour Department If people so defrauded were to communicate to the Department when and whero such fraud was practised something might bo done."' The Napier branch of the Catholic Federation last night passed a resolution _ protesting against the Roman Catholic clergy and religious being compelled to serve under the Military Service Act, and trusting that tho authorities will take immediate steps to have all such persons exempted from service._ The meeting fully supported the action taken by Archbishop 0 Shea in the matter.—Press Association. Furniture, Floors, and Linoleums look like now when rubbed with 'TAN-OL.' Brings up wood-grain ami pattern—gives a lasting polish. In tins—liquid, Is.; paste, 6d.—Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3017, 2 March 1917, Page 6
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203Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3017, 2 March 1917, Page 6
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