EXHIBITION OF WOOL AT CRYSTAL PALACE.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1312, 25 November 1880, Page 2

EXHIBITION OF WOOL AT CRYSTAL PALACE.

I "We have received a prospectus from the Agent - General's Department, petting forth the proposed arrangements for an exhibition of wool, woollen manufactures, and allied industries, to be held at the Crystal Pdlaco from June to October in next year. As inducements to the completeness of the display, the, Directors offer intending exhibitors necessary space free of charge, "will furnish motivo power for working machinery free, and medals and certificates of merit will be awarded by compitent jurors. The exhibition will be the fir.*t of a series of special International Exhibitions of different cla&sea of manufactures. Quoting from the prospectus : — "The demand for wool has increased with marvellous rapidity, and this raw material is produced more cr less largely in all countries. But it is to the Australian and African Colonies that Europe is now mainly indebted for its supplies of superior merino wool. Of the 411,000,000 lbs of wool imported into this country in 1^79, nearly 50n, 000,000 lbs came from the British possessions. The woolen manufacture now ranlc>* second in impot trmee of the British textile indu«-trie«., wool beinir much preferred to any other material for nc iriy all clothing purposes. Although London is the centre of supply of wool to the Continent, and buyers are attracted here in large number*, yet nn interchange of manuf.icti'ivd prod lifts takes place even between competing countries. Buyers who come over to London to attend the periodical wool sales have little i opportunity of examining, in thy confu- | siou and eompetit : on of the s;ilt>rooms, the characters and qualities of the raw wools exposed, or of asceitainin<r thw names of the wool-growers. A more leisurely and advantageous opportunity will be afforded to purchasers aud manufacturers in the proposed Exhibition, to examine all cla'-seR of wool and hair, and the fabrics made with them, and to obtain detnils of piogre«>, improvement-*, prices, machinery, etc." The programme of object-% admi-^ible comprises a very wide range, the following coining within the scopo of New Zealand contributions: — Fleece wool, skin wool, lambs' wool, fine merino, combinir wool, clothing wool, Juhtie wool, demi-lu>tre, down and halfbred, extract wool, woollen rags for shoddy and mungo, woollen flocks for paperhangings, dressed sheep and lamb skins, coats and cips made of them, woollen yarn, worsted y.irn, genappe yarn, fingering ynrns for knitting aud embroidery, woollen manufacture 1 ?, coney or rabbits' wool, rabbit skins (rough and prepared), bird skins and feathers, and prepared applications.

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