STANDARDISED FOOTWEAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17948, 15 November 1918, Page 4

STANDARDISED FOOTWEAR.

HOARD OF TRADE FIXES PRICES. A scheme for the standardisation of boots and shoes, and which also includes the fixing of a uniform price throughout the Dominion, has now been deckled on by the Board of trade. A few particulars of tho.new system were furnished by Mr W. b. MacDonald to a. reporter yesterday He stated that the proposal which ha d h f™ adopted provides for the fixing of tho price and profit of the maiidacter and will also include the price which the reto for will be allowed to charge Standardised footwear wi be stamped with both the price and the official mark. Tlio board was uow in a position not onlv to regulate the price of footwear, .£,-, to ensure that tho manufae"°intests would no t 0 neglected \ll the boots and shoes put on the markeT will be Dpinmion-made goods. Tho range of samples mil be fairly extensive, but' the fancy ballroom type will not bo favoured* . Th? board, which .is *ow on ,ts way i , ?/wi'Coast in. connection with to submit samples facture footwear to d the jnfl the peace cploDrew arrangeenza vision hadUP| 7 ents " \.l kwhen Mr Ward will don* next. week, J Manufacturers again be m tbe have d in the other 1« §»•£?{; to produce the completed arrangement*. *» footwear reqturocl.