The Harwood Sugar Mill (also known as ''Sunshine Sugar Mill'') is located on Harwood Island on the Clarence River in the

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region in north-eastern

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, Australia. It began operations in 1874, and is the oldest sugar cane crushing mill still operating in Australia. Harwood Mill is one of the three sugar mills in

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with the other mills located at

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on the Tweed River and Broadwater on the

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. Harwood mill is currently owned by the New South Wales Sugar Milling Co-operative, formed when cane growers purchased the three NSW sugar mills in 1978 from the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR). CSR built and operated the three for-mentioned mills up until this time. The Harwood site, unlike most sugar mills also includes a

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(built in 1989) which converts the raw sugar produced by conventional mills into white sugars. The sugar produced by NSW mills is used primarily for domestic consumption.

External links

* http://www.nswsugar.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=42 * http://www.ballarat.edu.au/projects/ensus/case_studies/sugar/index.html

References

* Briody, Patrick.(2003) ''Sunshine sugar : secrets of success : the history of the New South Wales Sugar Milling Co-operative Limited'' Broadwater, N.S.W.: The Co-operative. Industrial buildings in New South Wales Economy of New South Wales Industrial archaeological sites Sugar companies of Australia Grafton, New South Wales {{NewSouthWales-struct-stub