SOUTH AFRICA’S SHEEP
PROVIDING LIFEBOAT GLOVES. The skins of South African sheep arc today helping to save the lives of shipwrecked British sailors. Sheepskin gloves, large and warm, are now included in a lifeboat’s equipments Two and a half pairs of them are got from each sheepskin and big quantities are being turned out by the makers. They are also producing a great number of other types of gloves, mostly for the Royal Air Force, not to mention leather flying helmets at the rate of a thousand a week. The Army is getting from them gloves of ample size for protecting men at bayonet practice and they are also distributing quantities of boxing gloves to the Forces generally.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 3
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118SOUTH AFRICA’S SHEEP Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 3
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