FLAX WOOLPACKS.
NEW ZEALAND EXPERIMENTS. DUNEOIN MAN CONFIDENT. LOCAL INDUSTRY POSSIBLE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) DUNEDLN. this day. For many years the presence ia woolpacks of jute fibres, coarsc and fine, detached and scmi-detached, has been a source of annoyance and Qnancial loss to the buyers of Bradford anu other centres of the wool industry who deal with Australia and New Zealand. Recently a crude remedy, which at best saved to initiate the en!, was tried. All sheep owners were instructed to turn their bales inside out before the wool waa pressed into theni, thus reducing to a minimnTn the quantity of fibrous matter that could possibly become mixed with the fleeces. However, the results achieved have been by no means entirely satisfactory.
Smoother Sarfaccs. With the object of overcoming the whole trouble, a Dunedin expenmrnter has spent many hours in research work. Not only ha> he succeeded in evolving a process whereby the ordinary jute bale, at imported from India, can be treated so that its containing surface, or. for the matter oi that, either the internal or < xtfinal s-jiface, can be made as smooth a.* glass -without the low of tlexibilitv. but he has also proved that flax as well a* jute can be used in the manufacture of 1 packs. j
"And why not New Zealand flu?"' was the question he a»kcd a reporter. "I consider »c can make our own wool-! parks in New Zealand. i 'Taking Australian and New Zealand' markets together. I find that the two countries bm 25.000.CW> woolpacka * year 1 valued at wveral thousand* of pound*. I' see no reason why we should not make our J own bale, and thus tain a valuable indue-' !j7 ,n i * Zcalaa< *- A mill to s-upply ifces? packs would have to make 10,000.000 1 yards a year of fabric.
Work for 1000 H&nis. "Altogether about 1000 hands would be employed. The work, of course, would all be done by machinery, and labour costs in the production of the article should not exceed that of India. Tic \«w mil! girls, through their ability and intelligence, arc able to talc charge of two or three machines, whereas :n India one Hindu is assigned to each machine. The assumption is that the locally-made article may even be turned wlii Z % chMI T Md it j * ill be of equally serviceable texture,"' 1
FLAX WOOLPACKS.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 195, 19 August 1927, Page 5
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