"SHODDY BOOTS."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10172, 23 February 1911, Page 5

"SHODDY BOOTS."

MR TAYLOR'S STATEMENT RESENTED.

By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last, Night. A special committee of the Canterbury industrial Association investigated the... allegations made by «Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., in /the House, regarding the manufacture'...of shoddy boots in the Dominion. In a lengthy report the committee states that. MiTaylor attended before the committee, and went fully into the matter, and pointed out that his remarks hadi been given a general application .that was not warranted. No reference was made by him to boots manufactured in Canterbury, but only to a class'of boots manufactured by one maker in> Wellington. The committee has -instructed the secretary to pass the matter on to the Wellington-Industrial Association with a request ;fo prosecute an enquiry. A further report was 'adopted, and the Association' resolved, "That it is a matter for regret that a general statement should have been made without due care, and without necessary qualification, by Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P.,; gravely reacting on the character cf the boot industry of the Dominion, statements which have done serious injury to ftihis important industry, but which were not borne out by the facts in his possession. These facts, as since stated by Mr Taylor to the committee of the Association, .point ito shoddy boots being manufactured by one manufacturer working on a very small scale in the North Island." ,