IMPURITIES IN WOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19086, 3 August 1925, Page 7

IMPURITIES IN WOOL.

VEGETABLE FIBRE PROBLEM. Speaking at the annual conference of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union in Wellington last week, the president, Mr. W. J. Poison, said he had some experience lately of vegetable fibre in wool and there was a good deal moro in the question than tho average sheepfarraer seemed to realiso. Tho Home manufacturers were endeavouring to interest New Zealand growers as to the importance of putting up their wool in a form more suitablo to manufacturers' requirements. Tho question was, who was going to pay the extra cost? Mr. W, B. Matheson (Eketahuna) said it was a sound economic proposition that they should send their wool Home in the cleanest possible condition. The president remarked that a Bupply of new bales was on its way to the Dominion and they were going to givo them a trial. The following remit on this question from the Poverty Bay branch was agreed to:—-"That wo view sympathetically tho effort of the wool manufacturers to eliminate vegetablo fibre from wool, and, should experiments now being arranged prove satisfactory, the growers bo urged to use tho woollon packs when the manufacturers are prepared to pay a reasonable price for same when buying the wool."