THE FIRST SUGAR LUMP
Who gave us our first lump of f ugar? asks an English writer. it was Henry Tate, born at Ghorley, in Lancashire, in 1,819. He began, life as a grocer’s assistant and passed on to a sugar refinery at Liverpool, acquiring an invention by which loaf, sugar could be cut, into cubes and becoming king of the sugar market. We read of Henry Tate in Arthur Mee’s new book, “Lancashire,” one of th© King’s England series, la. fascinating Domesday Book of the duchy, which has been the cradl e of our prosperity The publishers are Messrs. Hodder and Stroughlton.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 442, 25 May 1937, Page 3
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103THE FIRST SUGAR LUMP Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 442, 25 May 1937, Page 3
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