“USE MORE WOOL"

Northern Advocate, 9 January 1936, Page 2

“USE MORE WOOL"

HOSIERY TRADE PLANS CAMPAIGN (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 8. Leading wool men of Bradford approved the hosiery trade proposal to launch a campaign to encourage the use of wool, in view of the marked inroads on "cotton, linen, and rayon, which raise the alternative. of adapting machinery to knit artificial fibres for hosiery, or continuing with wool against foreign competition, mainly by Japan. Some' of the speakers thought that a campaign was unnecessary, in view of the absorption of Australia’s clip of £3,000,000' bales, but others emphasised that other countries, than Britain were consuming it. Work must be provided for Britain and use must be found for the Australian clip if it,continued to increase. A. collective effort to publicise the virtues of wool should be made with Australia.

Owing to sanctions curtailing exports of Gorgonzola cheese, Italy is increasingly turning her surplus casein into a substitute for wool. She is now aiming at an output of 15,000 tons a year, at half the cost of real wool.

Samples of this product have been examined by Professor King of Leeds University, who does not thinfk it will ever rival natural wool. It looks nice, superficially, but he doubts its ability to -stand tests for durability and washing.