KNITTING WOOL
It must come as a shock to most New Zealand women to learn that "there is a fairly substantial surplus of wool at the moment." according to the chairman of the Wool Council. Why is it, then, that the shop shelves are empty and necessary wool for baby's clothes, and for knitting articles for the men of the army, navy and air force is unprocurable? Strangely enough, Australia also reports a surplus of stocks of wool, and if we have insufficient wool here surely supplies could be obtained from Australia. Thousands of women in New Zealand would be gladly knitting to-day and feeling they were doing a little bit to help the war if they could get the wool. And the mothers, what of their anxiety in finding that there is no wool for knitting baby clothes. Bv wool, I mean the soft easily knitted kinds, not the coarse, poor kind of wool, which now and again appears in the shops. Wool is produced in this country so why cannot we have the best. The women of England are ab,e to obtain wool for knitting and it seems something should be done to make wool available in New Zealand for knitting. KNITTER
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 6
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