SHOE FACTORY IN N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 4

SHOE FACTORY IN N.Z.

PLANS OF BATA COMPANY

APPLICATION FOR PERMIT BEING CONSIDERED

WEUJXGTON. Ocfoh^ 2To estabiisa a modem saoe faewry norg mainly Sew ZeaJaod operatives, and producing boots and gfticuJarly designed to meet New Zealand ideas and fashions a toe by ard aim of Dr. Fred A. Miwhtk. resentative in WeHmgtmi of toeßntisb Bata Shoe Company, on whose be&alf an application for a permit to establish a bcm was Eled early this year. The application is being considered by toe Bureau of Industry. Dr. Menehik is a Czech. wl», after tby war, went to Britain to join the Eriglish Bata Company, one of 50 or so factories established througn toe world as links of toe parent CzecbQstovakian company <rf Thomas Bata at Zlie. . _ Dr. Menehik said that if toe factory was established it would certainly not be in one of the mam centres. It was the policy of tee orto set up its suitable close to a town of 3CW to 10.000 inhabitants, where there would be an opportunity to build homes for the operatives. Dr. Menehik has a good opinion of the quality of toe .greater proportion of boots and shoes at present made m New Zealand. He had found that New Zealanders had their own ideas of boot and shoe fashions—ideas which were hard to meet with products imported from factories in other countries. he said. They were best met by producing special types in the country.