An Auckland girl, Miss Ester James, proposes to carry out a novel idea for increasing the interest of New Zealanders in the manufactures of their own country. In November she intends to begin a walk from the North Cape to Bluff wearing New Zealand-made clothing and shoes and living on food produced in the Dominion. Miss James recently gave a demonstration at the Auckland Winter Exhibition on behalf of a manufacturing concern ancl lately she has been in attendance at the Christchurch Winter Show. She expects that her tour of 1200 miles will occupy four months and sho has been negotiating with the Government Publicity Department to take photographs at different stages of her tour. At theatres in the towns she visits she intends to speak on Now Zealand industries and her experiences.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6629, 17 August 1931, Page 9
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