THE WOOL INDUSTRY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 7

THE WOOL INDUSTRY.

GROWERS AT BRADFORD. USEFUL TALK WITH SPINNERS. London, Sept. 9. Wool growers and spinners me 6 for a heart-to-heart talk at Bradford at the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce. There was a representative attendance of Australians and New Zealanders. including Sir Thomas MacKenzie. In welcoming the guests, Mr. Aykroyd said that spinners did not desire to dictate but they sought the cooperation of growers in meeting traders’ requirements. Mr. Aykroyd opened a discussion on deterioration of some New Zealand wool as the result of Romney cross producing coarse hairs and lowering the value of finer fibrea Spinners were of opinion that Wensley Dale were the best rams to meet New Zealand’s wool and meat needs, but several growers dissented. They claimed that better results were now accruing from Romneys. Coming to Australian defects. Mr. Aykroyd drew attention to the harmful results in recent years from the introduction of the Vermont strain. Th© conference considered marking sheep with tar, etc. The _ producers welcomed the announcement by Sir Henry Whitehead that experiments were proceeding with a new solution which, it was believed would stand the weather without damage to the wool. A representative of Burv hat nanufacturers. mentioned inability to buy Australian or Cap© wool owing to the presence of tar, which experts often were unable to detect until the final of the sixteen processes through which the hats had to go had been reached.— (A. and N.Z.)