THE NEW WOOL PACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 292, 10 December 1925, Page 4

THE NEW WOOL PACK.

SAMPLE IN AUCKLAND

MADE OF ALL WOOL

A sample of the new wool pack for baled wool has been received by the Auckland Wool Brokers' Association, and may be seen at the offices of Messrs. Dalgety and Company in Customs Street East by persons interested.

For years Bradford manufacturers of woollen goods have complained of the enormous expense incurred in eliminating jute fibre from the manufactured goods. The present jute packs yield loose threads of jute, which carniot be detected until the manufactured article is passing through the dying process; then the jute reveals itself, for it refuses to take the dye. To get rid of the .jute, then, adds considerably to the cost of the finished article. Bradford did not merely complain and make suggestions, but took the practical course of providing a model wool pack. The new pack is woven from coarse crossbred wool and will be sewn with woollen thread, which means that there will be no possibility of any jute being mixed up with the wool. These new packs are, of course, much more expensive than the jute packs, but, on the other hand, they can be used again and again. Furthermore, it is Bradford's suggestion that buyers of wool put up in these all-wool packs should pay £d per lb above the bid prices to compensate the growers, and this concession to be given for the first five years. The jute manufacturers, realising tbat the loss of the wool pack trade ■would be a serious matter, have produced a new jute pack which they contend will eliminate the menace of loose jute fbres mixing up with the wool. An aspect of special interest to Dominion woolgrowers is the belief that if the all-wool pack is adopted the wool for its manufacture will have to come from New Zealand. Indeed, the packs themselves might well be manufactured in this country.