LIGHTER WEAVE MEANS MORE WOOL PACKS
WELLINGTON, April 9. The New Zealand Wool Board's agreement to a proposal recommending that New Zealand woolpacks sliould be of Jighter weave in the interests of conscrving jute, means that possibly between 80,000 and 100,000 extra woolpacks will be available for use in New Zealand. Thougli the weaye will be ilighter in order to niake the jute go further, this does uot niean that the size of the reguiation 42-inch woolpack will Ibe Teduced in any way. The change in the woolpack weight will not exceed 10 per cent. Woolpacks which are woven in India have been scarce foi some time and during the past eight months sheepfarmers throughout New Zealand have been concerned over the prospects of a dwindling supply. Last vear approximately 1,000,000 woolpacks were needed by New Zealand. The chairman of the InternationaJ Wool Secretariat, Dr. Edgar Booth, M.C., will address representatives connected with all aspects of the wool industry when he visits New Zealand this month. A special meeting to which overseas, diplomatic and consular officials will be invited, has been arranged by the New -Zealand Wool Board in Wellington on April 23, when he will give first-hand information .about overseas wool developrnents. The board is planning Dr. Booth 's tour.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1947, Page 6
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