THE, GOVERNMENT BOOTS
ARRANGEMENTS GOING ON". '
The Hon. .\V. D, i>. itf ncDonald, I'rt;ideut of the Board of Trade, iuforra?<i a reporter yesterday that now thai, thn conference held some days a°o had satisfactorily riealt • with the-. , price of hides, it remained with the Board of Tradu to fix the prices first of leather, and then of the standardised boots shortly to Ijo put on,the market. He said that the Board of Trade was going into those matters now, and as soon as they were settled ho hoped that tie, boot; manufacturers would he able to go on with the production of standardised boots. The prices.- he anticipated/would not he 60 much lower than the present retail prices as perhaps people might expect, hut the quality of tho boots would lie piiarnnteeu. nun would be pinch superior to of boots now. being offered at similar prices. There would be no opportunity for profiteering 'it these hoots, for every pair would bo stamped with a Government stamp on the sole, and stimpcd also Avith- thn retail price. So that every purchaser would know at once the price he ought to pay'for them.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5
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191THE, GOVERNMENT BOOTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5
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