NEW GUINEA TEA
Plans are being made to establish a tea-growing industry in the mountains of New Guinea. Already, some experimental plantings of tea bushes have been made; a test patch was grown before the war with such good results that experts declared the country might one day become one of the world’s great tea-growing centres.
The camellia bush from which tea is produced will grow only in ; damp mountainous places where the 1 temperature is high. J New Guinea, therefore, with its ' great range of mountains, may well prove to be as productive of good tea as India, China, and Cey- | lon. j Native women and children, with ' large baskets on their backs, pluck . the leaves rapidly with both hands.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 July 1949, Page 5
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121NEW GUINEA TEA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 July 1949, Page 5
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