The need for some steps to prevent what was described as "alarming inroads being made by synthetic fibres into wool markets” and the desirability of creating a “wool consciousness" were emphasised by Mr G. C. Warren in speaking at the smoke concert of the Kaiapoi branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, of the work of the New Zealand Wool Publicity Committee— shortly to be renamed the Wool Council. After a reference to foreign propaganda woollen goods, which wiil councils would have to offset, Mr Warren said the increased production of artificial fibres had reached alarming proportions. There were rayon (silk), staple (artificial wool), and now “the strong" (a staple fibre with an extraordinary range of uses). "They are now producing about .£1.000.000,000 worth of staple fibre,” Mr Warren said. "Rayon, of course, passed the £1.000.000.000 mark years ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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