FOR FINE WOOLS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17916, 21 October 1932, Page 9

FOR FINE WOOLS

BRITISH INVESTIGATION

Of considerable importance to the wool industry bj the arrival in Sydney of Mr. O, W. Buckley, a young graduate of the Leeds’ University, who, on ; beljalf of the textile industries of Great Britain, will carry on research [into types of Australian wools and I their substitutes, says the - Sydney Daily Telegraph. < • ’ : j Mr; Buckley said, that, the .London telephone 1 okHiange now used wool in indurations? ‘ The liner the-wool the 'bigger, llm rbsisfaifye, it had been found, arid iUappearod likely that the system / would extend to other exchanges. . ‘ * One of-tho problems of tho industry was the wearing of'more cotton and silk. The medical profession had recOTutnbndod the weariiig of cotton, for although it (would : mot absorb life amount of perspiration that wool did, it was claihiod that 1 it would ’■ absorb it, more quickly. Nevertheless, 1 Mr. Buckley expressed the opinion that very fine wool and silk wore more suitable for wear in the ' tropics than tile' cotton suiting material' now .in -vogue.' | Mr. 1 after study at, tho .Gordon Institute of .Technology, Geelojig,. will - visit - a sheep station near the'border <jf New South Wales and Victoria. The suitability of the finer yarns is hits • special Study.