SOME WOOL PROBLEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20116, 29 November 1928, Page 18

SOME WOOL PROBLEMS.

VARIATIONS IN QUALITY. Commissioned by the Empire Marketing Board to study factors in the variation in quality ol fleeces of the same grade (one of the chief problems with which British woollen manufacturers have to contend), Dr. .f. Nichols, of the Leeds Wool Roseau lb Association, reached Melbourne on the Orvieto last month, and will spend seven months in the Commonwealth. Before returning to England lie will engage in similar work in New Zealand. Souith Africa, and Canada. Dr. Nichols said that the difference in the milling properl fes of wool of the one grade interrupt ed spinning and caused a great deal of (trouble. The variations were due to facfjors of climate, nutrition, and environnieij t, an:l if the suitability ol" wool frvin cerlain districts for a certain product were determined the tronblo might be rectified. Sptjaking of South African wool. Dr. Nidhols iiaid that the proportion of fine fleet o ih it was very high. There was a deni and for South African wool for cer tairi of tho higher grades of manufacture. Tho presence of dark fibres in wool, caused by tne using of dark-faced rams of Piitis'h breeds m cross-breeding for mutton, mallei it useless for manufacturing. Woo! of I,hss kind was being produced to some extqrnt in Canada.