TEA WHEN TIMES ARE BAD. Contrary to what one might expect, there is a great deal of romance to be I found in Government Blue Books, uml . Uh' annual report of the Commissioners I of €u>'tonu for the United Kingdom is , nu exception. 5 Receipts from tea, it appears, show an increase of '£238,000 on the year, the » amount retained for home consumption - 'l>eing 11,500,00011) greater than in the i previous year. 3 1 This fact is remarkable in n time of I 'industrial depression, and the Commist Wonera state that it must be ascribed - in part to the fact that when times are' t liard tea is often made to take the place, t *of solid food. f But tea is* not the only bevorage the (■onsumption of which goes up hi times 0 bf trade depression. The consumption of spirits -was temporarily chocked by e the prosperity of 1907, but recovered. Ie and increased, under the depression of last year,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 267, 18 December 1909, Page 4
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162Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 267, 18 December 1909, Page 4
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