SHODDY BOOTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10779, 30 May 1911, Page 1

SHODDY BOOTS.

(Per pWr AssdcaATitfK.j. . Christcburcl},'j\|#y ,;2jt}-V . A-t a conference of the Boot Operatives Union-and-a n#nrher of boot retailers and repairersyheld to-night, a s*rons,.eonijslain> was made relative to ..the importation of shoddy boots into the Dominion, and the following motion was carried iinanimoiislv: "Tliat it be a recommendation from this conference to the Boot Operatives' Tnion that it take .immediate steps to convene a conference of the boot trade penerally with a view to having steps taken to prevent importations, which. have increased during recent years, and are still increasing, of boots manufactured outsido the colony, including a quantity of shoddy."