Novelty in Shoes.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1939, Page 4

Novelty in Shoes.

Complete in every detail, but only 2J inches long a pair of shoes, hand made in England, has been secured by a Stratford shoe retailer for display in his window. The shoes are an exact replica of an ordinary sized pair. They are of the welted type and have the stiffeners, toe puffs, tongues, and laces of the full-sized shoes. There is even the little peg in the soles put in to hold the sole strips in place while the sewing is done. The heel is nailed in the usual wav. “God’s Own Country.” “I expected a great deal when I arrived in your country; but what I have already seen has surpassed all my anticipations.” This was how Dr F. Naegeli, the leader of a party of Australian tourists, expressed his admiration for the scenic beauties of Otago and Southland, when speaking at a reception in Dunedin. The country down south was beautiful for grazing, he said, while the profusion of flowers and trees and the mountains; and streams truly earned for New Zealand the name of “God’s Own Country. Referring to the close kinship between Scotsmen. Dr Naegeli said that he could not “put it over” in Invercargill. The people knew when he spoke that he was not Scottish, and he had to confess that he was born in Switzerland.