ONLY PARTLY LEATHER
DFXKDIX SHOE FIRMS FIXED. Dunedin, July 22. l ive linns were charged at the Police Court to-day with having in their possession shoes, the soles and heels of which consisted only portly of leather, without a statement of the materials comprising them being conspicuous and lightly stamped or impressed into such article. Pleas of guilty were entered in most cases, the explanation being •lull- the goods were purchased through au agent and that it- was very difficult- to detect the defect..
Evidence was given by one of the defendants respecting the identity of "all leather” and “compp” footn ear. Defendant stated that he had had 32 years' experience and he held lliaL there was no infalible test as to whether Hie stiffener of a shoe was of leather or of good “compo” but good "compo” was always better than inferior leather. Women disliked all leather heels, which they condemned as being “heavy as lead.” in easily nine-tenths of the tine footwear made to-day the heels were of "compo.”
the Magistrate treated the cases as test ones and remarking that the public must be protected in accordance with the terms of the Act, initicted small penalties in several instances.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2914, 25 July 1925, Page 2
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201ONLY PARTLY LEATHER Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2914, 25 July 1925, Page 2
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