ARMY EQUIPMENT
ORDERS PLACED FOR BOOTS AND CLOTHING (United Press Association] WELLINGTON, 29th June. An announcement was made by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) to-day that orders have been placed for boots and clothing for the expanded Territorial Force and those members of the National Military Reserve who will be equipped. The Minister said that the Army Department placed orders for such equipment every year, but the expansion of the Territorial Army, the Territorial Air Force, and the establishment of a reserve, together with the need for replenishing stocks, had led to orders being placed for 16,000 pairs of boots. The manufacture of these would be undertaken by a number of factories throughout the Dominion, but all footwear factories would not receive orders as some did not manufacture military boots. Orders had also been placed with the different woollen manufacturing companies for a substantial quantity of khaki cloth for uniforms and for other woollen articles.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 June 1939, Page 3
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