NON-WOOL SUBSTITUTES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 165, 15 July 1942, Page 3

NON-WOOL SUBSTITUTES

Wool producers concerned with a possible threat to wool by the wartime use of substitute fibres will learn with interest that trade circles in Bradford consider it improbable that Britain will follow the example of U.S.A. in requiring non-wool substitutes to be blended into civilian woollen goods as a war economy measure, says the Bradford correspondent of the Melbourne Argus. Conditions in Britain and U.S.A. vary considerably. Measures possibly desirable there would in trade opinion serve no useful purpose in England. The American move is understandable. She has* large cotton resources, abundant raw material for rayon production, but needs to import considerable quantities of wool to supplement domestic production to satisfy war needs. She can. therefore, effect shipping economy by directing the use of a certain proportion of locally produced non-wool fibres in civilian woollen goods. Britain, however, must import cotton and rayon as well as wool, so presumably no shipping economy would be effected by the substitution of non-wool fibres.