BOOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 8

BOOTS.

I read a letter in Tliursdav"s ."Star "' r-';, ' , nv . Not Importer. Either. where he complains of th« prices of shoe laces. I made it rav business to lock into one of the stored thin'k «i lar ° S ar ° on * alc ' and T li k ™ Y ritCr / I,ould llavc mother look. The laccs lie says arc 44d per pair are only 2.V1 p Cr pair. WTiat is uore these 2]d laces are manufactured " Nc ; Zealand; the others are imported: the lid laces are ladies' laces. It is I ople like this who complain and thev are the very ones that have done so much to br.n ? the like of this about. II r'„ , noth '"" TO hpl P est-ablii-h he secondary industries in New Zealand l ,r ° f ° n, - r r b J' V #Lc imported from countries l.ke Germany and ,T ap a„. the result it never was an economic : I'ropoMtion to manufacture a line like this Now Zealand, and now that th--mport control restriction, have been m.po-ed they cry out. IXTER E.^TED