THE BOOT BILL.
Frequent increases in the charges for hoot repairing,' and a continued disinclination of those prices to get hack to anything like the prewar level, has caused the family man considerable concern. The boot hill was mounting up in an' alarming way. As a result, there has been a greater increase in the hoot repairing done in the home. This litis been made comparatively simple by the marketing of numerous makes of,ready-made soles, some rubber, and some fibre. These soles are certainly much cheaper than ‘leather, and arc said to be m«re lasting. The representative of one. large firm informed a press reporter recently that hundreds of pairs of soles were sold in a week, and many of the purchasers stated that their action was.a protest against the high charges made by boot repairers! There was an enormous demand just now for hoot repairing materials, and as many as fifty lasts had been sold in one week, substitutes for leather were in much greater demand than leather itself. There was a particularly heavy demand for rubber heels which could be easily adjusted at home.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2229, 20 January 1921, Page 2
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186THE BOOT BILL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2229, 20 January 1921, Page 2
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