Milling journals of the past. Milling Industry in Shanghai: The Opening of a New Mill, Wah Shing Flour Mills
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2023 May |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | “A representative of a Shanghai newspaper recently had the pleasure of eating some very delicious cake, which had been wheat in the husk that very same morning”. Milling (20 Dec 1902) reported that the newspaper man quoted above was attending the opening of the Wah Shing Flour Mill on the North Soochow Road, an establishment which was only one of many industry ventures which owed their origins to the enterprise and commercial sagacity of Mr. Chu Lai-Fong, better known as Yuen Chong. No doubt the marked success of his experience of operating two mills in Shanghai inspired Mr. Chu with the idea that there was room for a third. There was luck proverbially in odd numbers and, as he had already a rice mill running on the creek-side and room for a kindred industry, he decided to install an extensive mill grinding wheat. The result was to be his fine new, well-equipped mill...Read more. |
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