PRICE OF FOOTWEAR REPAIRS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23131, 21 September 1940, Page 17

PRICE OF FOOTWEAR REPAIRS

to the Eurroa or the press. Sir,—lt would be more satisfactory if Mr Taylor replied to my letter in detail instead of introducing extraneous matter and referring to “Old Dinnie” and a section of the public as silly. I qualified my remark by stating that if he were fully employed the footwear repairer would make £6 a day on to-day’s prices. As for Mr Taylor’s .statement that he would be glad to make £6 a week, if Mr Taylor cannot make £6 a week he might enlighten the public and myself as to how the man in business, to whom I referred in my previous letter, makes well over £6 a week. He is not fully employed, pays shop rent, and the same price for his material as Mr Taylor does, and charges 2s 6d a pair less than Mr Taylor for first-class work. Will Mr Taylor tell me what he pays per lb for leather now, and the price before the rise? If he will let me know the average number of bootsmen’s and women’s—he repairs a week, I will tell him what his earnings Can Mr Taylor procure imported leather at 4s 6d per lb —I, understand it is off the market—or is he using colonial leather at about 3s per lb. If so, he is making an extra Is a pair on old prices. Hence my statement that repairs should have dropped Is a pair, because practically all imported leather was used before the rise in prices. Yours, etc.. mNNJE September 19, 1940.