CLOSING OF WOOL BALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21329, 2 November 1932, Page 7

CLOSING OF WOOL BALES

STEEL CLIPS SUGGESTED DISADVANT AGES OF TWINE In a letter sent to the Director of Agriculture, Dr. C. J. Reakes, a copy of which was before the Dominion executive of the Farmers' Union in Wellington last week, Mr. W. A. Tate, of Grey town, stated that a Japanese wool buyer had told him that ho was instructed hy six manufacturing firms not to buy New Zealand wool on, account of the bales being sewn with twine instead of being fastened with steel clips. The manufacturers' complaint was that sewing with twine tended to leave pieces of twine in the wool «<nd these, together with the fragments of jute from the bales, had to be picked out by hand. Mi\ Tate said that while ho was' in Sydney ho found that the Australians had used the clips for five years, It was quicker to use them than to sew the bales and no machine was needed except a pincer instrument to extract them. The president of the union, Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., said he believed the clips would bij a good deal cheaper than twine. It was decided to ask the woollen goods manufacturers arid the brokers for their views.