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Tin: Crr That Cheers. How many people, when drinking a cup of tea. give a thought to the manner in which the leaf is prepared for the market ? They can visualise a tea estate with acres of ten bushes, amongst which coolies are busy plucking the leaf, but once the leaf has passed into the factory on the estate the remainder of the process through which it passes is little known. Nature is supposed to have a great deal to <lo in bringing the leaf to the condition in which we find it at tlie grocers, but a glance into the factory would also show that machinery is extensively employed for the purpose. The original primitive methods, adopted from the Chinese, have been entirely superseded, and the manager of a tea estate has now to lie as much an engineer as he is a planter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1928, Page 2
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149THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1928, Page 2
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