ENCOURAGING USE OF WOOL

Evening Star, Issue 22232, 9 January 1936, Page 9

ENCOURAGING USE OF WOOL

CAMPAIGN TC BE LAUNCHED HOSIERY TRADE’S PROPOSAL APPROVED ' Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 8. (Received January 9, at 12.5 p.m.) Leading wool men at Bradford met, and approved of the hosiery trade s proposal to launch a campaign to encourage the use of wool in view of the marked inroads by cotton, linen, and rayon. Raising the possibility of adapting machinery to knit artificial fibres for hosiery, or continuing with, wool against foreign competition, mainly Japanese, some speakers thought a campaign unnecessary in view of the absorption of Australians 3,000,000 bale clip. Others emphasised that other countries rather than Britain were consuming it. Work must be provided for Britons, and a use must be found for the Australian clip. If it continued to increase a collective effort to make public the virtues of wool should be made in Australia. WOOL SUBSTITUTES ITALIAN EXPERIMENTS, LONDON, January 8. (Received January 9, at 1 p.m.) Through sanctions curtailing her exports, Gorgonzola (Italy) is _ increasingly churning her surplus casein into a substitute for wool, aiming at an output of 15,000 tons yearly at half the cost of real wool. Samples of this fibre were examined by Professor “King, of thp Textile Research Branch of Leeds University, who does not 'think it will ever rival natural wool. He says it looks well superficially, blit he doubts its ability to stand the tests of durability and washing.