“ SNIAFIL.”
‘.MUST BE TAKEN .SERIOUSLY.” WELLINGTON, Fob. 3.
“1 saw small specimens in Sydney of sniafil. synthetic or artificial wool,” remarked Sir Frank Heath, secretary of the British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to-day. “Tt is an Italian process. There is anntlier process which has keen worked out by a combination of a German firm and a Swiss firm. The German Siiss product is a treatment of the cloth after it has been woven. In the case of the Italian product the treatment of the cotton filament takes place before spinning. “ft is impossible to say yet what the price of these ih?w artificial wools will he, and it is euallv impossible to say how far they will go in competition with natural wool, f am not an expert in wool, hut 1 do know something of the history of scientific development-. and [ am quite ii'ilain they have got to he reckoned with. That was shown in the case of synthetic indigo dye and artificial silk.” .Sir Frank Heath reiterated his slalcmenl tliat the advent of artificial wool must ho taken seriously, although perhaps not, to (lie extoiil of some other synthetic products.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1926, Page 1
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