A REMINDER TO SHEARERS.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 159, 1 November 1912, Page 4

A REMINDER TO SHEARERS.

EXTRANEOUS MATTER IN WOOL. Referring during a course of lectures in Napier to the damage done to finished doth through jute fibres, etc., getting into wool Mr S. Wood remarked on a few common practices of the shearing shed which led to the above trouble. The shearer, he said, very often started by cutting up pieces of jute pack to make himself a pair of soft jute shoes to wear while he is shearing, and this was often done in the shed, and the loose jute fibres got into the wool. This work should not be done in the shed. Another thing, the pressers were not too careful with the loose string, and did not take enough care in examining the new wool packs and sweeping them before they put the wool into them. There was a great danger of loose string and jute fibres getting into the wool when it was being sewn up after sale. If these few points were attended to more carefully, there would not, said Mr Wood, be so much damage done to the finished fabrics, and all would help to lessen the cost of producing same.