NO GUMBOOTS
FARMERS HANDICAPPED SUFFERING DISCOMFORT REMARKS BY MR SUTHERLAND The disability farm-workers are suffering from a result of the shortage of gumboots was referred to by Mr A. S. Sutherland, M.P. for Hauraki, when speaking on the Estimates in the House of Representatives recently. ' Mr Sutherland said that the item of £5OO for advetising New Zealand goods seemed excessive as retailers had not many goods to sell. For two winters there had oeen a shortage of gumboots, and the • result was- that women and others’working on farms and out in the open suffered very great discomfort in wet weather.
The department was supposed to be assisting a Christchurch concern vO manufacture gumboots but the industry was not being pushed along fast enough.
It was just a question whether the manufacture of gumboots should not be given preference in some instances over the retreading a tyres.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32303, 23 August 1943, Page 5
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146NO GUMBOOTS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32303, 23 August 1943, Page 5
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