THE NORDERN BOOT AND SHOP COMPANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12071, 15 September 1902, Page 3

THE NORDERN BOOT AND SHOP COMPANY.

Sir.— 'lb" po-ition of the Northern Boot and Shoe Company de.-erves more than passing uoih-e. The t.i.iiiiif.c t'.tre of boots and shoe-; i*. of no .~,'u.:1l importan.-e to Auckland, in that it tint's employment for a large number of operatives, but the business cannot lie sustained if it leaves no margin »f profit for th' employer. The report of the Northern Boot Company shows th.it last year'* operations resulted in a loss to tii" company, t.'oiui; into, details, the report, indicate-, that til" usual trade uilliruiiies rei fiuetuarions in rfi - - '■•■itiic;: market had Iwon somewhat iu'-tisiticu ciuritn; the 12 monrJis. bit empiuisises the h;»raj*uij eomlitions »£ the hr, under which the hoot business had. now to lv earned on. If it. is true, the. company's business, from bi ini; .i good divi- ■ dend payer, lias Iw.'en turned into a losing 1 ' concern, mainly p« m to the operations at", this io,.'-. then the more public: this fa.-t m made known the better for nil of us. Here is a hu-in.-.-- giving employment t..> a con-* -:.'.Tat.ie - etion of Atukhoid's artisan seriously end-inhered by the award of tht* Arbitration I'ourt. The iptestiou appears to me to he one that the ( number of t'oniiii'ivi' iii:lt'il well take in hand. Inquiries should be made as to the effort the opera-; tions of the log arc having upon the busi-| ness generally, and if the inierence to bo drawn from the report, of (lie Northern BootCompany is sustained, then, tho information should be made as widely known, as poisible.—l am, etc., Observer.