HIGH COST OF BOOTS
. ' CAUSE MB EFFECT, Mewing to tho leather and shoo business tho American "Hoportoi"'' 6ays:— "The unprecedented conditions developed by the war have induced influences! Which are operating to revolutionise tho system of buying and selling leather and 6hoes. It is well understood that tanners have not insisted upon full replace-. ment. values, .and shoe manufacturers having purchased leather at old iprices have passed their advantages on to jobbers and retailers. On tho other hand, tho packers ore more modern _ trader. They long ago abandoned the idea eo prevalent in the leather trade' of 'taking care'of your customers.' This paternal policy is more likely 'a> Tcsult in serious difficulty later. While tho tanners have toon holding tho umbrella over their customers hides lin-ve boomed until ordinary 'sole and upper leather varieties have advanced J5 cents a pwind. Millions of dollars' worth of hi-,'h- cost hides ami skins have been bought and paid for. How are tho tanners to take care of their customers when this raw material Ms on the market «s sole and upper stock? ... It begins to appear that one of tho consequences of tho world war will be for tho time toeing, at least, to dissolve the helpful and amicable relations bobveen buyers and sellers and to forco a svstem of selling merchandise strictly upon without sentiment or remorse." . . The foregoing conditions are beginning to be reflected in New Zealand, and those in the trade :jay that the only means of checking them are fixed prices for hides, leather Mid boots. One Joea manufacturer openly advocates a method whereby the price ai which boots o.iiU shoes are to bo sold should be stamped upon tho solo by too manufacturer, rliat would onsuro that the retailer was gettiii" a fair return on the manufacturing price, and tho public was not toeing overcharged, as was too often the caso at present. ■
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 5
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315HIGH COST OF BOOTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 5
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