WHY WOOL IS SUPREME

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1927, Page 2

WHY WOOL IS SUPREME

AN INCOMPARABLE FIBRE

( lotning, at a reasonably cheap value, is finding a rapidly growing world demand. writes Air H. Dawson, of Bradford, in the London “ Times.” The vast populations of the Far Fast, together with Russia and Northern I l .urope, are potential customers for cheap clothes. There are many substitutes or auxiliaries claiming recognition —chiefly on the ground of cheapness. ( otton. which reached old per lb in 1920 and 12d per ib in 192(i. is now tit ski. Jute lias declined It) per cent to JO per cent during the past year, and wood pulp, from which artificial silk can be largely produced, is almost as plentiful as the various grasses witli which from time to time experiments are being made. Some of these vegetable fibres, especially “ art silks,” are being increasingly used for supplementary purposes. Despite all these supplementary raw materials the fact remains that as regards the clothing of the world’s population, no other fibre can compete with wool from the sheep’s back for warmth, durability ami comfort

There are quiet but forceful developments in active operation to improve and to increase the- supply of what is now as never before one of the primaryneeds of the world. Larger supplies of wool are undoubtedly wanted. The more intensive production per sheep, in which the Australian growers have been such successful' pioneers, should he emulated. The British Empire has the opportunity and the means of producing the best and the largest supply of this valuable raw material,