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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Kapai Boot Factory

Kapai Boot Factory (George Alexander Coles, Frank Jagger, Alexander H. Walker, partners), Eden Terrace, Auckland. Telephone 1015. Cable and Telegraphic address, “Coles, Auckland.” The factory has a floor space of about 15,000 square feet. The motive power is a gas engine of fifteen horse-power, and the plant is of the very latest and most improved design. It includes the celebrated Goodyear welting machinery, lasting, slugging, sewing, finishing machinery, and, in fact, everything required for an up-to-date business. About 120 persons are employed in the factory, the monthly wage sheet amounts to about £700, and there is a monthly output of about 6000 pairs. Two travellers are employed by the firm in canvassing the whole of the North and South Islands for wholesale orders only. Mr. Coles has ceased importing English and Continental boots and shoes, as he believes that everything required in the trade can be made in the colony. The firm is daily demonstrating this at the Kapai factory, where goods are manufactured equal in quality, style and workmanship to the imported article. The specialties page 381 of the firm are Goodyear welts and pumps on hand-sewn principles for walking and evening shoes, standard screws, machine-sewn fairstitch, and all other makes. The trade marks “Kapai,” “Sewn Welts,” “Featherweight,” and celebrated “C” are well-known all over the colony, and are a guarantee of the quality of the make.