DOMINION'S /WOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 9

DOMINION'S /WOOL

RESEARCH AT TORRIDON

(From "The Post's" Representative.) ; LONDON, Ist April. > Last Thursday Sir Thomas Wilford visited for a second time the headquarters of the Wool Industrial Research Association at Torridoh, Headingly, Leeds. Dr. Barker, tho director, took him in hand for the day arid explained in simple language all tho apparatus and work that wcro examined.

Tho High Commissioner saw the new spinning frames. He saw tho samples of New Zealand wool which have been sent over by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Investigations which are now beiiig pursued concerning this wool were explained to him. Ho examined the work now proceeding to develop a suitable all-wool pack to obviate the old trouble of vegetable fibres in the wool. He visited tho physics" dcpartinontiw'here there is a new apparatus for felting wool. Ho was especially interested in the machine for testing the breaking I point of a fibre. In the chemistry do- [ partment a new system for bleaching wool is being developed. Samples of wool were •examined demonstrating the brown discolouration caused by sugar in the wool, and other samples were seen which showed the difference between East and West Coast Bomney 'wool.

The High Commissioner, who describes the laboratory as a woitder shop, is anxious to pay still another visit when time permits. While there, lie took the opportunity of discussing with Dr. Nichols the details of his recent tour of investigation in New Zealand and other wool-growing countries.