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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5088, 14 February 1927, Page 2

A recent paragraph referred to & young Maori whose boot,, whew measured in a repair shop at Upper Hutt, proved to be size 13%. The bootmaker concerned considered that the boat) was o’f a record size, and said that he had never seen a boot as large in a lifetime spent in the trade. What would he say if he could siefe. a pattern handed to a Southland News reporter by a local manufacturer. ? It was the pattern of a boot made f°r an Edinburgh clerk, who died recently, his effects being sent* to relatives in this part of New Zealand. The sOiie was 15% inches in length, and the boot size waisi 19 ! “This is no fiction.,” said the head of the firm to the incredulous pressman. "It is an actoal pattern I am Showing you. As a matter of fact, we have made to order lhe're larger boots than those warn by the Maori youth, at Upper Hut'i. For years we made for three sisters. The smallest took size 10, the next size 12%, and the third size 14%. We called her .Cinderella!”