A thriving shoe industry is developing in Palestine, it is disclosed by official statistics just made public here.
During the year 1935, a total of 750,000 pairs of shoes were produced in the Holy Land, slightly less than fifty per cent of them being turned out on the benches of factories, the remainder the product of cobblers in their private workshops. Value of the footwear produced in Palestine amounted to some $2,000,000 an average of slightly less than three dollars per pair. About 4,000 persons are engaged in the industry, half of them Jews. In the same period, 770,000 pairs of shoes were imported from other countries.
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