U.K. WOOL INDUSTRY

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30808, 21 July 1965, Page 12

U.K. WOOL INDUSTRY

Metric System Adopted By adopting a new method of yarn couniting, the wool textile industry becomes a pioneer of the metric system in the United Kingdom. The new method called “tex,” which was officially “launched” in Bradford durtag June will put Britain in step with world textile industries that have adopted this universal system of yarn counttag. The changeover from older methods of numbering follows a recent announcement by the British Government of plans to adopt the metric system throughout the country. Tex is the outcome of a de cision in 1956 by the International Standards Organisation to encourage the use of a universal system of yarn counting. A method that expressed weight per unit length as grammes per kilometre was suggested as long ago as 1873, at a conference in Vienna. The tex system is a direct count of weight per unit length, as opposed to the indirect system of length per unit weight hitherto used for woollen and worsted yarns in Britain. The tex count is the weight in grammes of one kilometre of yam. Thus, a yam of 10 tex is one of which one kilometre would weigh 10 grammes.

Writing For Radio.—An address on writing for radio was given by Mr M. O. Caddick, of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation at a recent meeting of the Christchurch Writers’ Association. Results of a competition for the first chapter of a novel which was judged by Mr A. W. Reed, of Wellington, were: Mrs C. Evans 1, Mrs G. Comber 2, Mrs E. Pegler 3.