BOOTS FOR WORKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21515, 12 June 1933, Page 10

BOOTS FOR WORKERS

DEPOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Preparations are complete in Auckland for the distribution of boots to workers under the Unemployment Board's scheme. Large bins which have been provided in an upper room of the old Shortland Street Post Office are now being filled with boots graded according to their size and weight. For the heaviest work in the country the boots are of a strength and solidity that calls to mind the boots provided in war time. For town work the boots are not quite so heavy, but are still of a very serviceable strength. To this depot, which is reached by the main stairway from Fort Street, requisitions will come in from all the certifying officers in the Auckland province, and unemployed who have worked the extra day required to entitle them to obtain the boots will take their orders there. Requisitions are already beginning to como in. Largo space in the upstairs part of the old post office has been placed nt the disposal of the Labour Department and will soon bo used to accommodate the various branches of the organisation controlling unemployment.