Make Shoes

They Want To Make Shoes

No details were forthcoming ] Sydney, up to early January, abg the alleged plan of a Sydney foo wear factory to set up a branchl Port Moresby.

IT was being freely stated in Guinea in early December, thj Goldberg Footwear Ltd., folloi ing a survey of two of its directed would send a manager to Pd Moresby before the end of 1960 ar thereafter establish a factory.

The scheme was supposed to I that the company would buy le'ath in Australia, export it to Papu turn it into shoes, then export tl shoes to Australia for sale. Thoi Territorians who have tender fee ings about these things, immediate jumped to the conclusion that tl only reason for setting up such] factory in Port Moresby was take advantage of P-NG’s “chef black labour” —and they were ii censed. What Australian Mail landers would say about this aspe of the business we don’t know J the notion hasn’t got into gener circulation yet.

However, if anyone can tell I the moral distinction between —f| example—sending passionfruit see( to New Guinea, getting “chea black labour” to plant them and se the resulting fruit which is pulpfl and sent back to Australia und( refrigeration; and what the fool wear factory was alleged to be gc ing to do, we should like to hes it.

But there are a number I

As you can see, she's quite a different t[?] of Highland Lassie—quite apart from the f[?] that she is picking New Guinea coffee bea[?] —Australian Official Photo.

cal differences between selling jassionfruit pulp—for example Australia and selling NG shoes.

NG natives are used to plant seds and tending what comes FG natives don’t make shoes, he “cheap black labour” could :urn out to be a myth, in, there is no restrictive Aus n Customs duty on NG passion but shoes manufactured in Guinea would, on entering alia, be dutiable at the same as shoes made in UK or any i r British preferential-rate ry. i NG passionfruit industry was d at a time when cordial facturers in Australia could ;et enough passionfruit juice aulp. Manufacturers can still a comfortably the pulp, etc., comes in from the Territory. , although this is a purely ; industry, Australian passion growers repeatedly try to stop agitating for a stiff Customs re is no shoe shortage in Aus and it can be imagined how rous the unions concerned shoe manufacture would be— have already had some practice ig about the rubber sandals ther cheap footwear that come im Singapore and the East.

Premature, He Says

5n they were approached in y, the Goldberg Co. principals t tall timber. Eventually a >man gave this information: It was not the company’s in n to manufacture and export stralia, should they go ahead :he venture; Their idea was to supply the leeds of New Guinea and ad areas and although it might jnomically feasible to supply Queensland and Darwin from Moresby there is no shipping j to either place, at present, w; Discussions, so far had been of an “exploratory type” and ild be premature for him to whether they would go ahead stablish a footwear factory in Moresby or not.