Wednesday, February 22, 2012

MODERN PAPER MILL TO BE ERECTED IN CHINA.


Of all the inventions credited to China, none seems more surely the product Qf that early civilisation than paper. For many centuries paper has been made by hand in the Flowery Kingdom, and for excellence of texture and finish their product has not been surpassed by papermakers of any country in the world. Now modern methods h?ve invaded China, and an up-to-date paper mill has been built at Kongmun, a city on tidewater in the Pearl River delta. The equipment is modern German paper-making machinery, complete. The enterprise is Chinese, a number of orientals living in the United States being interested financially, while Japanese workmen erected the mill Rice straw is practically unlimited in China, ana will form the basis of the paper manufactured. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette , 22 July 1914, Page 7

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