FUTURE OF WOOL
■■\ t ■ • VEGETABLE SUBSTITUTES
Vegetable substitutes for wool was a matter touched upon by the president (Mr. H.r D. Acland) -'at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheepowners' and Farmers! Federation.
Mr. Acland said the .German vistra fibre produced from the woodpulp of pine, beech, and other soft woods was fine and smooth in texture, but straight, weak, and brittle, "and not, as was the case with wool, in any way elastic. It would, he thought, prove tobea'more serious' competitor with cotton,; which it more closely resembled, being a vegetable product, than with natural wool. He .did not,think, however, that it would be wise to treat this 'matter of vegetable 'substitutes ' too ■• lightly.
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Evening Post, Issue 51, 28 August 1935, Page 10
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116FUTURE OF WOOL Evening Post, Issue 51, 28 August 1935, Page 10
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