Empire Countries Join United States In Joint Wool Research Programme

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 37, 13 April 1948, Page 6

Empire Countries Join United States In Joint Wool Research Programme

A joint programme of wool research in the United States by the American Wool Council and by the International Wool Secretariat, representing New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, has been brought a step nearer by decisions of the Australian and South African Wool Boards giving approval to such a policy: The New Zealand Wool Board had already signified its desire .to go ahead with the scheme.

As a result, according to the New Zealand Wool Board’s new service, Dr. E. G. Carter, director of the I.W.S. Department of Scientific and Technical Liai&on, flew from Britain to the United States on April 1, to investigate the wool programme proposed by the Princeton Institute for Textile Research. He will report to the meeting of the governing body of the 1.W.5., the International Wool Publicity and Research Fund executive, which is to meet in London in May. The proposal for joint I.W.S. and American Wool Council ' research arose from discussions held by Mr R. G. Lund, New Zealand member of the 1.W.5., during a visit to the United States earlier this year. The idea is to develop ways of making light and soft apparel fabrics, for which there is an enormous demand in the United States, from crossbred wools. New Zealand has a vital interest in such research because most of its ,wool is crossbred.