USE MORE WOOL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 74, 9 January 1936, Page 6

USE MORE WOOL

CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND. APPROVED BY BRADFORD MEN. CONSUMING AUSTRALIAN CLIP. (United Press Association—Copy right.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 8. Leading wool men at Bradford met and approved the hosiery trades’ proposal to launch a- campaign to encourage the use of wool in view of the marked inroads of cotton, linen and rayon. Raising the possibility of adopting machinery Uto knit artificial fibies foi hosiery, or of continuing with wool, against foreign competition, mainly Japanese, some speakers thought the campaign was unnecessary. In .view of the absorption of Australia’s 3,000,000-bale clip, others emphasised that other countries, rather than Britain, were consuming it- Work must be provided for Britons, and a use must be found for the Australian clip if it continued to increase. A collective effort to publicise the virtues of wool should be made in Australia.