SHORTAGE OF GOLOSHES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 13

SHORTAGE OF GOLOSHES

WEATHER CAUSES A RUSH

(By Telegraph)

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, May 10,

Due to the excessive wet weather since Christmas, there is a shortage of goloshes in New Zealand, especially in the north where the rush to procure overshoes has caught, wholesalers and retailers napping. As last winter was a comparatively dry one, there was little demand for foot covering, and few laid in stocks in anticipation of a wet season to follow, with the result that when the demand commenced a few months ago many North Island firms found their supplies insufficient to meet requirements. Some hastily appealed to Dunedin wholesalers to furnish supplies, and one local man who had obtained some 2500 pairs last year was thus able to clear them at his own price. ;