FOOTWEAR SHORTAGE
MANUFACTURER'S PREDICTION
A shortage of from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 pairs of footwear in New Zealand at the end of this year is foreseen by R. .Hannah and Co., Ltd., according to a statement made to the Wellington Man-power Committee in support of an appeal against the immediate calling up of six of the firm's employees who were drawn in the recent ; ballot for . Territorial service in New Zealand.
"On an average over the past several years New. Zealand uses approximately .6,000,000 pairs o£ footwear a year," says the statement. "After making a very careful survey and allowing for increased production the total quantity this year will not exceed by very much 4,000,000 pairs available from both the restricted importation and local production. This figure will include all the defence boots which have been arid are still to be manufactured for 1940, so that it will be readily seen that there will be a shortage of approximately 1,500,000 to 2.000.000 pairs.
"For the past year there has been an acute shortage of civil industrial boots. This has been brought about to a great extent by the increased requirements of the deferice'authorities."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 8
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192FOOTWEAR SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 8
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