LARGE SIZE IN BOOTS
RELIEF WORKER'S FEET An outsize in boots was recently supplied by the Unemployment Board's boot depot in Auckland to a country relief worker. These had to be specially made to measurements supplied by the man's overseer and when made were classed as size 15.' Not only was this man's foot long and broad but it measured 13 inches round the instep. It is on record that a recruit who was in camp at Featherstou with one of the Expeditionary Force reinforcements required a size 14 boot and he was held back from embarkation owing to the difficulty which it was foreseen would arise in providing him with footwear when away from a base.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 14
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117LARGE SIZE IN BOOTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 14
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