THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1911. FIBRE IN WOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10430, 22 September 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1911. FIBRE IN WOOL.

One of the most important questions wjbieihi have engaged the attention of wool-growers m New Zealand, and elsewhere, is that .concerning the vegetable fibre in wool. The question was discussed at an important conference recently held in France, and the following resolution was passed: —"Ill the belief that a large proportion of the growers of wool do not sufficiently realise danger of vegetable matter getting into -wool (firom the inferior bags used, it is recommended that spinners and buyers of wool should, declare that they will only bary such wools as are packed in iproper ibags. This is to take effect from the season 1912-13." The London correspondent of "Dalgety's Review," discussing this • resolution, says:—' 'For Australian, wool-growers to be told that after the season 191213 buyers arei.to. be advised not to purchase wools that are not packed' in 'proper bags' is, to say the least, a little strong, and I do not think that as yet it .need 'be taken very seriously. The question naturally arises: What is a proper tog, and why did. not that conference define the real meaning of the term? Evidently they are prepared to pass paper-lined' bags, and tibia no doubt is the solution of thle difficulty. From the very first it has appeared to the most experienced in the trade that that is the only cure of the existing evil, and even bales costing 3s 6d to 4s 6d each will give off a certain amount of loose fibre which! becomes entangled with the raw material, and which no wool .sorter in thle world cantake out. Paper-lined bags, I am certain, will solve the dnmculty second to nothing yet invented. But the question, arises, What party is going to bear the extra expense?

User® .say it is the growers' hu&iu&ss to send to market their wares in a businesslike way, which means that ithey should .provide good tares. With that I .fully agree, but whether or no they expect growers to pay 4s to 4s M ;per bale they have not said, though it certainly looks like it on the surface. I offer no comments on the above isolution, except to say that growers- have not yet made their voice felt so strongly as they .might do, and I think it is time they got together as ,a body and replied to the Vegetable Fibre Committee that they are willing to carry ouit their in■structions when buyers are prepared to pay half the extra expense incurred in providing paper-lined bags."