PACKING OF WOOL
NEW METHOD DISCOVERED AT LEEDS. LEEDS. March 9. A discovery lias been made by a Swedish research worker in the Textile Department of Leeds University which 14 expected to revolutionise the packing of wool. At the present time the woollen industry loses thousands of pounds a year by wool becoming contaminated during transit, and the problem of how to prevent this has existed ever since Australia began to send raw wool to this country. Air K. P. Hellberg. the inventor of a new type of wool pack, is a Stockholm man. His interest in the subject extends over more than a score of years, and during the last few months lie has been experimenting at Leeds. In the first place these wool packs were made of hemp, but on account of its cheapness jute was later substituted, with, it was subsequently found, harmful effects on the wool, into which vegetable fibres penetrated. The University authorities state that Mr Hellberg’s new wool pack, which is based on a paper fabric and produces no vegetable contamination, should meet -ill the requirements of the wool shipper.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 4
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