A REMINDER TO SHEARERS.
EXTBANEOUS MATTER IN WOOL. K Referring durintr a, course of lectures 31 in Napier to the damage done to finished •[ cloth through jute fibres, etc., getting in- J 1 to wool Mr. S. Wood remarked on a few. t common practices of the shearing shed " which lead to the above trouble. The c shearer, ho Paid, Tory often started by '' cuitiripf up..pieces ,of jute pack-to: make " himself a pair of soft jute shoos to wear n while he is shearing, and this wn's often tdone in. the shed, and the looso jute fibres 6 got into the wool. This work should not be dono in the sh«d. Another thing, the pressers were not too careful with theloose string and did not take- enoimli earn in examining the. new wool pocks and sweeping them before they put the. wool into them. There was a great daneer of . loose string and juto fibres getting into c; the wool -when it was being sewn up after J: "Sale."."lf" theso few points'were "attended i to more carefully, there would not, said Mr. Wood, be fx> much damage dono to ■ the finished fabrics, and all would help to lessen the cost of producing same i
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1583, 29 October 1912, Page 8
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204A REMINDER TO SHEARERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1583, 29 October 1912, Page 8
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