NEW WOOL PACK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 8

NEW WOOL PACK

SYDNEY WOMAN’S INVENTION. OLD PROBLEM SOLVED. Sydney, Nov. 26. For years wool merchants have been seeking a wool pack to replace jute, which, although universally used mars, to a certain extent, the wool fibres of tho outside fleeces in the bales, resulting in a general depreciation in their value when manufactured into woollen goods. A number of other wool packs have been tried, but, ou the whole, they have proved unsatisfactory.

Mrs Baird, of Railway Street, Pennant Hills, who invented a ' pack which is now, according to recent cable messages, being considered by the Bradford merchants, told a “Sun” representative to-day that she is convinced, after a series of experiments, that a jute pack lined with hospital bandage calico is tho solution of the problem. Her packs were made along these lines and sent to England for tests.

“That will give me correct expansion and overcome slackening, which several other packs submitted to English wool authorities failed to flo ” she said. “Then, again, the material I recommend will permit free passage of air to the juta, allowing it to function as if the caiico strips were not there at all. It will be impossible, too, for the jute fibres to come in contact with the wool fibres.”

Jute being a vegetable fibre and wool an animal fibre, both re-act differently when subjected to the dyeing process. Combined with all these advantages, this cnlico lined jute pack is economical and will stand rough handling.