WOOL’S FUTURE
— THREAT FROM “SYNTHETICS.” Lecturing before the Royal Society of Tasmania in Hobart recently, Sir David Rivett, chief executive officer of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, stated that,, to enable wool to meet the increasing competition of artificial fibres, it was necessary to make a sound scientific study of all possible means of reducing costs of wool production, and at the same time lessen the pressure on the chemist and the drive toward improved synthetic fibres, by making it as easy as possible for countries like Germany and Japan to obtain natural wool. This amounted, he said, to devising ways in which these countries could be permitted to pay in their own goods for those which we wished them to take from us.
Sir David explained the difficulties which the organic chemist had to overcome before his fibres could be made to possess the many useful properties of natural wool. At the same time he pointed out that, severe as these difficulties are, it would be unwise to assume that they will always defy attempts at synthesis.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1939, Page 3
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180WOOL’S FUTURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1939, Page 3
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