MODERN PAPER MILL TO BE ERECTED IN CHINA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 220, 24 October 1916, Page 4

MODERN PAPER MILL TO BE ERECTED IN CHINA.

Of all the inventions credited to China, none seems more surely the product af that early civilisation than paper. For many centuries paper bar 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 mod em methods h?ve invaded China, and an up-to-date paper mill has been built at Kongmun, a city on tidewatei in the Pearl River delta. The equip ment is modern German paper-makinf machinery, complete. The enterprlsf is Chinese, a number of orientals llv Ing In the United States being inter ested financially, while Japanee* woikmen erected ihe mill Rice atra* Is practically unlimited in China, hik will form th> baala cf tha mm.