PAPER MAKING
ITS SLOW GROWTH With reference to old-established businesses', a correspondent writes to say that the Montgolfier family has had a paper mill in the llhone Valley for nearly 4.00 years. Paper making began in England in 1490, Avhen John Tate, built a mill near Hertford. lit began in the United States in 1690, when Rittenhouse built a mill in Germantown. About 2000 years ago the Chinese invented paper, but they kept the. art of paper making secret for 700 years. Then the Arabs learned the secret from some Chinese prisoners. In the year 79.") there were paper mills in Baghdad. The Moors learned it from the Arabs, and it spread lir.st to Spain, and. then to Italy and France and England. So, it took many centuries for the art of paper making to become known. Ln these days a new art can be made known in a lew months, and by means of advertising, a new product can have a world-wide saie in a day. Compare with this the splendidly equipped mills at Whakatanc to-day.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 93, 27 July 1943, Page 5
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177PAPER MAKING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 93, 27 July 1943, Page 5
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