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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1936, Page 8

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AUCKLAND, June 12. “The development of Woolstra, as a substitute for wool, is being viewed very seriously by Australian and New Zealand representatives in London,” said Mr L. G. Brundall, Leipzig Trade Fair Commissioner, returning to Sydney by the Mariposa. It contained about 40 per cent, of wool, and the remainder was fibre. Extraordinary developments had been made in Germany with its manufacture, but the Germans did not wish to proceed to manufacture substitutes, if they could place manufacturing products in failexchange for wool. At the moment, Germany was faced with the necessity to find markets for her products. The people in Germany were now well dressed and. happy, and there was very little unemployment. The possibility of a German company inaugurating an airship service between Australia and New Zealand was mentioned by Mr Brundahl. He had been asked to investigate a project for a line of airships, which would each carry forty passengers,

and would cross the Tasman in eighteen hours. On his return to Sydney, he intended to take up the question with the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments. It was possible that one of Germany's latest airships would fly to Sydney, on the occasion of the city’s 150th anniversary.