Grocery Firm Imports Wrong Kind Of Shoes For Nurses
(P.A.) Parliament Bldgs., June 30. Discussing the Government’s import control administration in the House of Representatives today, Mr. W. H. Fortune (Opp., Eden), brandished a nurse’s white shoe at the Hq;ise, and declared that nearly 100,000 dollars had been spoilt on importing from Canada footwear of this type which had proved worthless. Top shoes had consisted partly of “just rotten cardboard” and the absurdity of the whole system was shown by the fact they were imported by a firm of grocers, When this firm found footwear retailers would not buy the shoes it sold numbers of them to hospital boards, but the nurses quickly refused to wear shoes which did not bear comparison with New Zealand made shoes. Mr. F. VV. Doidge (Opp., Tauranga): Have they granted a licence for the importation of running shoes next year? Mr. Fortune: It won t be necessary. We will make them here.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 July 1948, Page 4
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