.That the retail price or footwear will shortly advance to a figure that has had no precedent m New Zealand 'is the firm conviction of; several leading boot manufacturers and retailers who appeared before .the Military 'Service Board at Auckland. They stated that they expected the retail price of moderately good boots will yet reach from £2 to £3 a pair.' One witness eipressdd the opinion, thai m order to prevent a boot famine m New Zealand the ' Government should requisition all the. hides produced m the Dominion aaid insist that thoy be itanned here. He knew of no attempt to make ■v "corner" m footweal* m New Zealand or to force- the retiail prioe up beyond reasonable limits. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 4
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