NEW ZEALAND WOOL

Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND WOOL

TO BE PROCESSED IN GERMANY FIRST CONSIGNMENTS BEING PACKED AT BRADFORD (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) LONDON, April 27. The first New Zealand wool to be processed in Germany since 1939- is ’likely to leave Britain within the next few weeks under the scheme which provides for all Germany’s surplus wool processing capacity to be utilised by British firms during the . next 12 ' months. As British firms may deal only in dominion wool, it means that the surplus German machinery will also be ear-marked for dominion wool consumption. The first consignments are now being packed in Bradford, and will leave as soon as transport and other facilities are available. There is a brisk demand in Britain for wool which is sorted and otherwise ready, for German processing, and this special demand is finding reflection in the wool which is immediately available. The scale of German ability to consume this wool may be gathered from the fact that the minimum weight of an individual lot for combing in Germany is fixed at 75,0001 b, and some single consignments will reach 500,0001 b. Further good news for New Zealand woolgrowers is that British mills, after several weeks of sub-normal activity owing to coal famine conditions, are now receiving much more generous supplies, and are operating nearly 75 per cent, of the possible working hours.