BOOT ORDERS
BY UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD
(Per Pre« Association. Copyright.)
DUNEDIN, May 19
•Before going .north this morning, iMr "Walter Bromley, of the Unemployment Board, stated he had completed arrangements in Dunedin for six thousand pairs of working boors, aim manufacturers assured him that these orders would mean plumbing market for raw material and skilled labour, which was a further proof that it was a (demand additional to the ordinary market, and non-existent prior to the Board’s intervention.
He repeated for general dissemination, a statement he had just made ito manufacturers, namely, that the Board does not desire to Interfere with the ordinary channels of industry. If retailers, through their national association, could show the Board (how it can work through retail stores, while still manufacturing to the same advantage for the unemployed, and allowing 10 per cent, for handling the Board would give careful consideration to any proposals concerning boys’ and girls' footwear that showed, how distribution could be carried out for an additional ten per cent. cost.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1933, Page 6
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