SYNTHETIC WOOL
MENACE TO REAL PRODUCT. VIEWS OF MR W. A. lORNS. (“Times-Age” Special.) ‘I really believe wool will always be saleable, and that we will get a price for it, but I think the boom prices are a thing of the past,” said Mr W. A. lorns, former chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board, when addressing Saturday’s meeting of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society on the uses of synthetic wool.
Mr lorns, who has recently returned from a trip abroad, said he was not speaking with any political or ulterior motives, but after seeing the uses to which synthetic wool was being put, he thought it was right that he should relate his experiences to other farmers. Personally he took a very grave view of the manufacture of synthetic wool, but he did not want the farmers to become pessimistic. Synthetic wool was going to be a big factor in the woollen trade, and in the manufacture of garments. Compared with wool it was a better product than rayon was in comparison with real silk, and all knew what happened to the silk trade. Mr lorns said he had met people who had worn suits and other garments made entirely of artificial wool, and they had given them groat praise. “When you meet people who have taken this stuff on as an experiment, and are still wearing it and finding it 100 per cent satisfactory. 1 think you should know about it. and after you have studied those samples yon will probably realise that it is a better product than rrost of you thought." remarked Mr lorns.
Not only was the substitute going to hit wool, but it was hitting cotton very much indeed. It looked like wool, and if it was worn near the skin felt like wool. On the other hand, artificial silk next to the skin could be told from the genuine article. Stating that synthetic wool had been known for only a few years, and that last year England. Japan. Germany and Italy had manufactured 230.000 tons. Mr lorns asked that would be the position in ten to fifteen years' time. Last year Japan took half the quantity of wool from Australia that: she took the year
before. Mr Irons was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his informative address.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 4
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388SYNTHETIC WOOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 4
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