MADE OF WOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 9

MADE OF WOOL

NEW WOOL PACK TRIED

MANY ADVERSE FEATURES

AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE,

(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received 12th February, noon.)

MELBOURNE, This Day. A test of the suitability of the woollen wool pack, as favoured by the Bradford Chamber S6f Commerce for packing wool, was carried out in a wool store here. The pack was subjected to dumping and handling treatment, as is customary with the jute wool pack. The woollen.pack is of attractive appearance, and, as it weighs only six or seven pounds against the elevon pounds of the jute pack, its use would effect a saving in weight. Opinions expressed in the wool trade were that the woollen pack,, as a result of the test, stretched appreciably. It was considered that by the time the wool baled in the packs reached the seaboard from the stations, the packs would be out of shape. Consequently, it would be impossible to stack them in brokers' warehouses three or four bales high, a practice which was essential in the economical working of the stores. The dumping test also disclosed that the pack lost its shape under this process, which would interfere with smooth working at stores, and wonld involve difficulties in respect of loading bales to advantage in ships' holds. Another objection to tho woollen pack taken 1 by the trade refers to win-dow-cutting for showing , the wool, which is necessary to conform with the rules of wool buyers. It was shown that the packs had elasticity and difficulty would be experienced in sewiug them up satisfactorily., The cest of the woollen pack wonld also prejudice its adoption, as, while the Bradford interests were willing to pay growers who used this class of pack an additional id a pound for wool. only a minor portion of Australian wool found its way into their hands.