-4 brisk trade in a new type of footwear is being created by the cobblers ot Albania, • lurkey, and parts of Persia. they ar c making shoes out of old mo or tyres by (he simple process of cutting well-worn motor tyres into the required lengths, fashioning a | o e and (ongue, ancl lacing a thong of leather around the top to bind (ho whole together. the finished article resembles a. Dutch sabot, and a traveller who lias just made a tour of the Near liast reports that in tlie bazaars the demand tor the new shoes is great because they cost less and wear longer than sandals or the more modern boot.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 3
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