BOOTS BY THE MILLION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 185, 23 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOOTS BY THE MILLION.

No loss than £325,000 worth of hoots ;i week are being turned out by the Northamptonshire lactones, who are supplying not only our own Army with footwear, but are also .unking hoots for the French aniry and navy, the Jic!gian, Serbian, and Italian armies. And now there is a likelihood of r.n order for three million pairs of high-logged hoots for the Russian army being placed in this country. It is pointed out that if this order > should l« placed in Tngland, it wi'l have a remarkable effect on the leather trade, for each pair of legs wi! cut into nine feet of leather, and each pair of fronts will take another two feet. It would, in fact, absorb well over thirty million feet of upper lu'ther, in addition to 2.">0,000 bend-, for 'he soles and 200,000 bends for repan -g, the leather altogether being equal to 300,000 hides. Many curious boots, by the y.rj, are being turned out by the Northampton factories. There is a thigh hoot tor sailors in wh'ch be can a'most float; short-footed hoots for Gurkhas; sandals for West African soldiers; boots for the Plying Corps; and last but not least, mosquito boots for our soldiers fighting in tropical countries. ....j p