STANDARD BOOTS
A.ND THE PRICE; OF- LEATHER.
■ ' Boots of. the'standard patterns: approved by the Board of-Trade, are now oemg manufactured throughout the ■, country in the factories, which, are able .to undertake the work owing to the stoppage of military, "demands. Boot manufacturers have complained that the' price .of leather' has been,advanced since the standardisation' scheme ..was first considered,, and the Board of .Trade has been instructed by the Minister in charge (the, Hon.'W. D. S. MacDonald) to make inquiry into the question of -whether the "increase is a fair one. The board 1 will do this, after it has finished the coal inquiry, which was interrupted by the epidemic. ,-
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 January 1919, Page 5
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109STANDARD BOOTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 January 1919, Page 5
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