WOOLLEN WOOLPACKS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 21 November 1924, Page 10

WOOLLEN WOOLPACKS.

THE BRADFORD SCHEME. (special to "the pbess.") ' MASTERTON, (November 20. Commenting on Sir W. H. Aykroyd's suggestion of woollen woolpacka .to hold 8001b, Mr H. H. Donald, managing director of Messrs Donald and Sons, in an interview, said that the Bradford Chamber of Commerce had apparently considered the proposal only from the advantages of the woollen pack over the jute pack. There were many other aspects to be considered, said Mr Donald. The saving in freight had been made a point; but this only concerned oversea charges, whereas inland freight often amounted to considerably moie. If the proposal wore adopted it would mean the scrapping in New Zealand and Australia alone cf aporoximately 30,000 presses, valued at easily £500,000, to say nothing of those in use in other wool producing countries. The proposal, adooted in its entirety, would mean an entirely new type of press, and in view of the fact that the present packs had taken anything from 30 to 50 years te perfect the. immediate success of the scneme serried to be doubtful. The use of a woollen pack might be all ri'bt in obviating tho jute difficulty, said Mr Donald, but the making of an 8001b pack, probably meant looking for trouble with carriers and waterside workers who lad to handle these articles.