Story: Clothing and footwear manufacturing
Skellerup has been a major manufacturer of rubber gumboots for the New Zealand market, including the Marathon brand, pictured here in a newspaper report about wet summer weather in January 1976. Skellerup’s most famous brand is Red Band, designed for New Zealand farmers.
About this item
Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1976/0153/17
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.