DENIAL AT DUNEDIN.
NO COMPOSITION IN FOOTWEAR. (P.A.) DUNEDIN, May; 1. A denial that composition ha's been used in the manufacture of women’s footwear in Dunedin was given by the footwear group of a Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association in reply to .a. press report of the annual conference of the Dominion Federation of tlio Boot trades’ Association in Christchurch, which said that such material was widely used. Dunedin manufacturers | said that they cohfined their remarks to the practice as they knew it locally, but they believed that 99 per cent, of the northern manufacturers were also using leather only. The secretary of the Manufacturers' Association (Mr F. L. Hitchens) said he had been in communication with the vice-president of the Federation of the Boot Trades’ Association, who had informed him that it was not the intention of the conference to represent that the practice of using composition was general.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 172, 3 May 1943, Page 5
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