WOOL RESEARCH
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS A high opinion of wool research being carried out in Britain is held by Dr F. G. Soper, professor of chemistry at the University of Otago, who has returned to Dunedin after an extensive tour abroad. He was very much impressed, he said, with the work being done at the University of Leeds and at the Wool Industries Research Association at, Torridon. Among other studies at the University of Leeds was the development of a synthetic seaweed product. “ This product is mixed with the wool and later dissolved out,” Dr Soper said. “ The result is an amazingly light woollen fabric of great beauty. The problems of shrinkage control and moth-proof-ing have now largely been overcome. From what I saw, I would say that in comparison with what is being done in other countries New Zealand is well advanced in her anti-shrink treatments in the woollen industry.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26348, 31 December 1946, Page 6
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150WOOL RESEARCH Otago Daily Times, Issue 26348, 31 December 1946, Page 6
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