WOOL CARBONISING.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 24 August 1929, Page 10

WOOL CARBONISING.

big saving in freight CHARGES. N.Z. PLANT PfiO.ll*.(Tjj) A question was recently acked a Pre-, why New Zealand ,| paid freight on 2*5.1)00 tons of year in the shipment of WOII |. ' ; the labor necessitated by the «i t |, 'j ing process was not done here ,3 of overseas. The answer i- Unit there is w -J bonising factory in t country the wool must be -hipped in a condition. Tin- -übj.-t lie., elated (J attention of an experienced won! ww, and buyer for some considerable lnM The main difficulty was that cry essential to the carbonising pt , cess had never been in de in N*- fa. land. Most elaborate drawing, specifications had been ee-ured | v tj, gentleman mentioned. Uepwntjtm were made to the late Governiwn; with the object of securing the entry of this, maciiinen duty in. but without saw

Government is sympathetic. It appears Hint a New Zealand fin undertook to make the machinery. hoi at a cost of .several hundred pounds higher than the quoted pike of the English manufacturer, Inn with no guarantee that it would operate snol cessfully. This defect killed the project, because the intended invHtrk dined to take the risk of technical w* chinery being macle by inexpciwd people. This, with the higher cot,b which had to be added several ilioiigifl pounds of duly, made the cost of tte proposed enterprise prohibitive When the present Government caine into power the whole matter w. taken up again by the promoter, and after considerable negotiation the Governfinent was symjxatheiie and granted duty exemption on the machinery that was not inadc here, thus saving several thousand pounds in capital coni. ; As this is an entirely new ndiistry designed to utilise kxai capit. I and provide employment for a iai> iimito of men, it has a Io: .J value. vi li* seen by the following figure s :— Every yeait approx)mutely 600.000 bales of wool wen flipped from Zealand. Last sej-on 538.351 lai# were sold publicly on account of over’’ . ( •(> buyei s and the oalanee of the year’s prodiid was shipped direct by the g i-owe rs. Ast he average weight of a bale is 3.501 b. the total weight be 210.000.00011). apd approxi»Mj 33 1-3 per cent, of this consists gre;ce ami ioreiyii matter, such I® seed, burrs, fern, cte., upon fi. i-ji t i, paid as il it were clean «'4 wheras it returns nothing of rate Tb< average cost ol sendingtfe rhe manufacturer i- 2d per II). This includes freight charges, railage etc* Freight Paid on Rubbish. It therefore appears that every yW New Zealand woo! growers pay on 30.000 ton- ol dirt and rubbteh, t tot I sum involved ..t 2d per »> W L510,()00. . „ By carbonising the wool in Nev land, only the clean wool bll ' pl 2 and as this eonnnands a ■ l, =' price than the dirty article, then' tage of purifying it before shfi® obvious. . cJr . Another advantage bonising company about xo will be a purchaser for cash ot wool, paying for same on the ket at competitive prices. V.fij lislmient of this new industry. , first of its kind in New the .second in New Zealan a . tralia. will mean the circulatio capital and the employ®*® labor - nossi* b ' All this has been made the sympathetic attitude o 1 Government, who have ®et t sentations of the promoter 1® generous manner.