WOOLLEN YARN MANUFACTURE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5394, 11 July 1878, Page 3

WOOLLEN YARN MANUFACTURE.

(From the Melbourne Leader.) The more a country extends its manufacturing power, the more prosperous it becomes, because It brings into circulation dormant capital, and opens but to the youth of -’the country opportunities of • making themselves proficients in some branch or other of manufacture by which they can always command a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work. Our industries have certainly made rapid strides during the last few years, yet it is strange that the great staple commodity wool has received, comparatively speaking, so little 'attention either in the direction of its manufacture into cloth, or its partial preparation for the use of the manufacturer in other countries. We have, already alluded to the excellent pecuniary prospects connected with the establishment of yam mills,, and would urge the consideration of the subject upon public attention. Many of our readers are possibly not aware of the extent to 'which the export of woollen yarns from Great Britain to the Continent has reached.. It is so enormous that we are within bounds when stating that at least of the wool sold in London is exported to the Continent in the shape of yarn ready for the loom, and the larger portion of this is from the wools shipped from Hobson's Bay. question then naturally presents itself, if it pays the English purchaser to buy Australian wool in London, convert it into yam, and ship it to the Continent, where it is manufactured into those fine fabrics the French are BO skilful in producing, would it not pay yarn spinners in the colony to put it into its marketable form at once, and receive the profits themselves •instead of the English spinners T The English f and continental manufacturers 1 cannot do without our wool, they must have it, consequently if We can spin the yam equal in quality (and why should wo npt f) to the English article, much of which is adulterated with shoddy, wo would übt only'be introducing and extending a indst

lucrative, industry, ’which alone would give constantly increasing employment to thousands, but we would also be stimulating our own wool growers and those of the sister colonies in improving their flocks and raising the standard of our wool to as great a perfection as it is possible to attain. The present system of exporting ahnosikall our wool in bulk, as we may term it, does not benefit the colony one hundredth part what it would were even a portion of it exported even iu the partially manufactured state described. At present certainly not' more than half-a-dozen parties participate in the yield of a clip of wool, viz., the grower, shearer, carrier, broker, and shipper, while the same clip, were it converted into yarn, would yield employment to hundreds, and at the same time enhance the grower’s profits. It is unnecessary to do more than suggest the numerous additional other trades that are called into active operation by the establishment of a single leading industry. Wherever machinery is brought into use mechanics of almost every kind are required, and a stimulus to business generally is given which keeps continually extending. A country can never become really great without manufactures, and the sooner they are established the wider will the population spread, aud money evenly diffuse itself throughout the various districts of the colony, A factory of any description established in a country district gives employment not only to those residing in the immediate neighborhood, but draws skilled workmen and artisans, who act as instructors to the rising generation. We commend tin’s special industry to the best consideration of woolgrowers, capitalists, and all others'interested.