RESEARCH ON WOOL
Call For More Expenditure The time has come for Australia to get off the sheep’s back, according to Sydney University professor of chemical engineering, Professor T. G. Hunter.
"This is the tragedy of having a one-crop economy." he said during a visit to Brisbane. He claimed the wool industry would have to spend much more money on research and promotion than was now envisaged.
Once called “the Bogey Man of the wool industry.” Professor Hunter said: ‘The wool industry’s marketing methods are medieval. A good deal is being done now in research, but it is too late, and a good deal more must be done. "I think the research is on the wrong lines. It should be aimed at breeding to change the properties of wool so it can better meet synthetics.
“Wool now has some properties that synthetics cannot match— for instance, it is warmer—but some of the world’s great combines are able to spend a fortune on synthetics research,” Professor Hunter said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29520, 23 May 1961, Page 21
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