MILITARY BOOTS CONTRACT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 68, 20 March 1917, Page 6

MILITARY BOOTS CONTRACT.

» TWO INFORMATIONS WITHDRAWN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Two informations brought by the Crown against R. Hannah and Co., hoot manufacturers, were finally dealt with in the Magistrate's Court to-day. One alleged that hoots supplied to the camp were not properly screwed, the other wa s Lhat defendants failed to make deliveries in accordance with contrat* i Mr. Meredith, counsel for the Crown in asking leave to withdraw the informations, said military boots required a particularly fine quality of sole leather and investigations made hy departmental officers satisfactorily established the fact that there was a shortage of such leather, the military authorities, fortunately were not hampered by the delay in delivery, because stocks of boots were well in advance of requirements. =J^ r i e 'Yf'. counsel *<»• defendants, stated that Ins firm would have preferred to have the whole facts investigated. The deficiency in the supply of boots arose entirely through inability to obtain an adequate supply of leather. Mr Reid S.M.. allowed the withdrawal ot both informations.