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FORTUNES CREATED BY TEA

INDUSTRY'S HISTORY OF UPS AND DOWNS

A JOB BEFORE THE EXPERTS

(By A. P. Luscombe Whyte)

RITISH tea-growing, with Spain that two cups of tea per

[FALLEN STARS

More Ministers are to be asked of tea; six cups a day. to perform for the pictures.

They will be asked to do run-

ning commentaries and not mere ly a few words of introduction,

For instance, with an agricnl.

B100 million capital, is one head a year (and that made with of the world's greatest food hot milk) is not good enough. industries," and produces one per Over America the industry is cent of the world's entire mer-divided. Americans drink little In the new campaign there wil be two types of pictures.

chandise, Tea, has created for-tea, but they do not drink much Grade A. productions are design-tunes, a new, misnamed, meal, coffee either. But they do drink ed for those electors who are cou-"five o'clock tea," and a world-ice-water. If America took one- sidered to be politically minded. wide symbol of British solidity. fifth of the Englishman's daily For the electors who live. In the Yet outside the Empire tea-brew there would be jobs for all But will almost. "unknown. the younger sons. outer darkness of political ignor drinking is ance the appeal will be more Great as the production is, Great they?

Mincing-Lane Scene direct.

Britain alone drinks more than one-half of ft. Every year the To-day Mincing-lane is as busy average Englishman drinks 10lb as ever. Four days a week the top floor of that extraordinary For this reason the rest of the building, the London Auction world lies under the shadow of a Rooms, is hectic with buyers, great propaganda campaign. brokers and spectators.. The experts have a job before There is no auctioneer there them: other countries do not The selling brokers, handling tural Alm Mr. Elliot would point change their drinking habits at planters' tea on a one per cent. commission, have tested the teas out the richness of the crops, and The post war story of the tea in advance at the great ware- incidentally claim the credit for industry is one of boom, slump houses, and issued a catalogue to Each sell- the National Government.

and possible boom. Its troubles the buying brokers. Film experts have a poor opin were caused by over-confidence, ing broker auctions his own lot. ion of the screen technique of over-production and bad distri- There is no buying in the dark. most of those politicians, who took hution.

Several days before the auction war much the tasters have sent for samples Directly after the part in the Government films. They want to improve them.. more tea was drunk: Consump-of the lots, tasted and blended. They say that Sir John Simon is tion had been rising steadily, them and found exactly what and the "best of a poor lot."

even through the war years, but how much they want.

The actual auction is chaotic Ministers do not use the right after the Armistice it jumped to

in the layman's eye. The room gestures for the film. Most of the skies.

Between 1919 and 1921 British is filled with school-room desks them employ notes. The constant are to be made public, and such dropping of the eyes to get the tea consumption rose 100 mil- at which brokers sit and bid up

Additional lion pounds. the issue, cue means loss of effect. procedure, whatever

tea recklessly by farthing jumps.. They will be coached if they gardens were hacked out of the In one corner are the represen- GUERINEAU RAMBAUD - On however just the decision, would

Indian and Ceylon jungles." "The tatives of the big distributing the 16th December 1984 at be likely to irritate rather than are willing to learn.

All A chance may also be given to boom did not last as long as the combinations who control three- Shataokok, Fo-on District, Can-allay national passione. ton Province, Jean Guerineau, this it is the plain duty of state back benchers who speak well and optimista hoped, but a comet's quarters of our home tea and

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No surprise need be felt at the united appeal of the Little Entente to the League of NR- tions for investigation of the re- sponsibility for the murder of King Alexander. Action on these lines has for some time been ex- pected, and in taking it Jugo- slavia may well have the sup port, not only of her allies of the Little Entente, Czechoslo

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tail of increasing production sur-practically dictate the prices. should not be too difficult. Gen

vived it.

They bid quietly and the broker takes the bids without Gombos, it is understood, has de-

When Fortunes Were Made

He knows their clared Hungary's willingness to

Between 1919 and 1926 more looking up. have the whole matter brought

with speculative before the Council of the League. Lawyer (to prisoner client who is a than 100,000 acres of tea gar- voices. The rest of the room is

plumber by profession): "Well, what dens were planted in India alone. scrambling The Little Entente would be shall we ask for-trial by judge or by This optimism appeared justified. buyers, hoping to sell again at wise to give time for thought jury?"

Consumption kept pace almost once at a minute profit, represen By the Client: "Take the judge. I've done Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 17, 1984. and second thought.

good "offees of the Western plumbing for most everybody in town and prices rose. In 1916 the tatives of the big blending firms,

but him."

average landing price of Indian who in turn sell later to dealers Powers the investigation may

tea was under a shilling a pound. and merchants at per cent. By 1927 it had reached 18. 7d. commission, casual buyers (who Yugoslavia's Appeal To be conducted in some form much

mare friendly and useful than! Mistress: "Where's the jelly. Brid Fortunes were made in tea, soon find themselves forced un The League under the conditions which now get?"

obtain.

Bridget: "Faith, missus, ye told me New companies were floated, and and out by the "regulars") and It was molded, so I throwed it away." expeditionary forces of younger any sightseers who happen to

sons sailed for jobs "with excel-drop in. Saved the Day

lent prospects" in the tea gar-"Palates Like Velvet"

Before the tea reaches the Panting and perspiring, two Irish-dens. men, riding a tandem bicycle reached The slump that followed was market it has to be blended. the top of a steep hill. "Begorra Pat caused to some extent by the Tea tasters and blenders have One drop gasped Mike, "that was a stiff climab,

"Sure and it was," puffed Pat. "If general depression, but just as palates like velvet. Victim Believed To hadn't kept the brake on we should much by over-production and placed on the tongue will tell the

lack of control.

rame of its garden and its own Have Come From East have gone backwards"

After the five years that are history. They taste and blend necessary to start a new garden first in the liquid state, sitting vaics and Roumania, but also of discovery of the partly burned body SUCCESSFUL BAZAAR the thousands of acres began before, say, a dozen tiny teapots production, and the market was filled with fresh tea, tasting first glutted. Prices sank and in two in single spoonfulls, which they the Balkan Powers. It has been of a European girl in a culvert, 446

years profits per acre halved. never swallow, and then in liquid reported from Paris that France miles from Albury, New South

In most cases they raised no objection to the sub-Wales, on September 1, this year, a Proceeds For St. Francis By 1980 profits had disappeared, mixtures. mission of the matter to the circular containing a description of

and the next year lethargic have to match up exactly to an Mincing-lane brokers were buy-already established blend, though Council of the League. Though the deceased, issued by the Sydney

blends and customers'. there are dangerous possibilities Police Department, has reached the

The de ▲ auccessful bazaar, which was ing for 5d. a pound tea that cost new of the inflammation of national local Police Department.

Formation Of The I.T.C. Marketing is none too simple. animosities if Yugoslavia's case ceased; whose remains were die-declared open by Bishop H. Val-almost twice as much to produce. "specials" are often 'demanded. is not judiciously handled by all covered in most suspicious circum-torts, was held yesterday at St.

Tea gardens were swallowed The tea drinker is eccentric. The average Englishman seems the resources concerned,

of stances, was believed to have como Francis Hospital, Wanchai.

Many articles were offered for up by the waiting jungle. The statesmanship are as vet, far from the Far East.・・

Rals, and these were mostly made by younger sons returned home to not to care what tea he drinks, the Canossian Sisters. Flowers work-in-garages. Planters for- but the West of Ireland peasant is a connoisseur. He buys the were sold by the pupils of St. got their troubles in credit gin. Francis Girls' School, and a lottery And then the industry, shaken first "golden bud" tea at 58. 6d. was hold during the evening. The out of complacency,, tooks its first alb. The Scots are almost equally is well known. Yugoslavia The

Hong Kong University tickets for this lottery were sold at step towards real fortune. Rextravagant, and so are the im- Why? No one knows. But charges Hungary with allowing Christian Association are holding sfty cents each, the first prize being presentatives of Indian, Ceylon poverished South Welsh

and East Annual Christmas the existence of camps in which the Great Hall is the University a gold bracelet, of the bazaar are to grow Netherlan dog that Indie it is so.

be used in aid of the St. Francis an International Tea Committee Every part of the country has different water, and needs suit Hospital and Home for the blind and and agreed to balance export and

An excellent brew They unanimously able blends. The RM.S. Empress of Russia decrepit. The Hospital and Home demand.

in Carlisle might be "dish-wash” International action, it has

in Colchester. their exports by 15 per cent. been loudly argued. is required arrived at Shanghai this morning, is run by the Canossian Sisters, and sank competition and restricted

Perhaps the foreigners' refusal to end what is called organised and will leave for Hong Kong is doing commendable work.

Further planting was forbidden, to-morrow morning.

to drink tea is due to ignorance international terrorism.

but there was no burning of tea, of its temperament. If that is feeling between the Hungarian The R.M.S. Empress of Canads

no parallel to the Brazilian coffee and the Yugoslavian peoples has left Shanghai this morning for

massacre. Only the best leaves all, the industry is out to break

this sales-resistance down. been revived in its former bit Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu. Vie-

and buys were picked. terness. The neighbouring toria and Vancouver. States have inevitably interpret

from exhausted. The text of

the memorandum to be presented

at Geneva has not been publish-

ed, and may be modified, and on

its form much depends. Its basis

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

rorists have been trained by next Sunday at 9 a.m. Hungarian officers.

.Old

ed these conditions as evidence

Hospital

TRAM-CAR STOPS MOVED

The result was almost imme

Easing Congestion At diate. In the first year of restriction exports from regulat City Centre

ed countries dropped 170 million pounds. Tea brokers sharpened As from to-day the tram-cars their pencils and wholesale prices stops at the junction of Pedder of average grades climbed to 1s. Street and Des Voeux Road Cen- 2d. a pound. Profits replaced tral have been moved 86 yards fur- losses. ther back along the tracka

The situation is now well under The Post Office tram stop is control Chastened tea-planters moved westwards by 35 yards, and obeyed without question the com- the Gloucester Building stop east-mittee's orders. Loss has been

Charged with the larcency of a of a threat to the independent basket of dried shrimps, valued at nationality and the frontiers which they won in the war, and $3.50, a 17-year-old Chinese, lad, Li behind the actual dispute are Kit, was remanded in Police.custody heard alarms lest violence should until the appearance of his parents succeed in forcing Europe to aand further inquiries Into his age; revision of the map of the by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the treaties. It is not surprising Central Magistricy this morning. that the Roumanian Foreign

Charged with the larcency and the Minister was at paina to em- phasise the indissolubility of the receiving of a purse contains wards by 36 yards. Tram cars are cut

ut. Now the industry wants Little Entente His definition $1.74 and a metal badge, the now able to discharge passengers to cover the world. lof its present purpose as-com-perty of Yip Kan Po of No. 126, plete approval of the efforts of Fuk Wah Street, Wong Yul Ling Belgrade to stamp out terrorism was sentenced to three months, hard is unexceptionable. A State, labour on a charge of rece however, may well object to ap- MEIWynne-Jones at agistracy, this morn in the pearing before the Leag character of an Indies party first charge of larcency, especiall If charges and trial drawn, owing to lack of evidence.

with

without interfering with motorists, Negotiations are going on who when shown a green light at with Soviet Russia, to quadruple the function have hitherto been her imports of tea Russian blocked by tramcar passengers consumption has doubled in the moving across the road

past year,

It also eases congestion at the busy pedestrian crossings.

Tlc experts will have a dinm- cult time in persuading Italy and

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