MONEY IN OLD BOOTS.
Wtiero do you throw your old boots and shoes' Generally in the dust lie.ip or give them to some old tramp to wear. H ere you in France you could command part payment of a new pair for the eld ones. The Leather of which they are composed is utilised in transforming old Jnto now footwear.
This is tho principal occupation of the nnlitarv convicts. The hroad-airow men take bo its or .shoos apart, all the nails are pulled out. and tlien the leather is soaked 'n water for some time to mttca it. I'mm those pieces that can be used are cut the uppers of children's shoes the smaller parts lieing employed in ilie n.anu.;u ture of high heels. The clippings and cuttings are turned into a paste from which artificial leather is made. Pieces which aro not good enough for this purpose are sold with the sweepings to agriculturists in the neighborhood. who make of them for fertilising piirpoees.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 270, 27 April 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)
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165MONEY IN OLD BOOTS. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 270, 27 April 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)
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