THE BOOT TRADE.
"The'workers of New Zealand' are paying through the nose for .their boots." This was a remark recently' made by a Wellington boot vendor to a representative of the "Wairarapa Age." Why is it? "Because," said the boot man, "we cannot make 'boots in' this country as cheaply ais they can be imported, and iit is the •poor man who pays the surtax every .time." This is a statement which should be investigated by our legislators. In spite of the preferential duty, it is a fact' that American hoots are swamping the local trade, and that the .merchants at 'this end are thriving at the expense ,of the worker. The duty is< merely a charge agadnist- the aiousehold expenses of the working man.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10307, 7 August 1911, Page 4
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125THE BOOT TRADE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10307, 7 August 1911, Page 4
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