New Zealand

In New Zealand. 1937 saw the establishment at Dunedin of the Wool Research Institute, a joint effort on the part of the New Zealand woollen mills and DSIR. the first director being Professor F. G. Soper, who then occupied the Chair of Chemistry at Otago University. In the course of time, the Institute became a research association and today is known as the Wool Industries Research Institute (WIRI) funded by the woollen mills, the Wool Board, the woolscourers and DSIR. The Institute is under the direction of Dr. L. F. Story, who has a staff of three scientific officers.

World Co-ordination of Wool establishment of the Wool Research Institute in Dunedin and under the stimulus of world events, the New Zealand Wool Board and DSIR formed a second research association, the Wool Research Organisation (WRO) whose laboratories near Lincoln College are now nearing completion and whose staff is meantime located in many institutions both locally and abroad, engaged in specific problems or securing advanced training for use as soon as the new laboratories are available.