FLAX PACK CONDEMNED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19152, 22 October 1936, Page 5

FLAX PACK CONDEMNED

WOOL FROM DOMINION OPINIONS IN BRADFORD TRADE WARNING GIVEN (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “I have to-day received by air mail the results of meticulous experiments made at the Bradford Technical College, and from these reports it is definitely stated that the packing of wool in the flax pack is going to be very detrimental to the New Zealand farmer and woolusers generally,” said Dir. ». W. Broadhead, a past president of the British Wool 'Federation, in an interview yesterday. ' “The chairman of the’wool pack committee of the Bradford Wool Federation states in a letter I have received to-da) that in their opinion no improvement in the manufacture of the flax pack will eliminate the faults of the pack, as they are quite satisfied that the raw material used is entirely unsuitable for packing wool. This must be of very vital interest to the woolgrower, as I am firmly of the opinion that wool so packed, when selling. will suffer depreciation, in value against wool packed in the jute pack. •1 regret very sincerely to have to make such a damaging statement, but 1 feel that in the interests of the woolgrower and wool-user it is necessary to do so.” Mr. Broadhead said that when New Zealand first sent the new flax pack to Europe, wool users unreservedly condemned it. A sample of a further flux pack showed some improvement, but when the wool arrived at Bradford, it proved little, if any, better. Last season’s pack also showed a slight improvement, but it was still behind the jute pack in efficiency. “I wish most emphatically to stress the point that we in Bradford are not wishing to be obstructionists in any way in your desire to use your own raw material and labour in producing a wool pack, bnt the many faults which we have pointed out are extremely vital to your wool-growers,” lie concluded.