THE PRICE OF TEA.
| At a time when there has 'been so I much talk about national prohibition, } says the Auckland Star, it will come !as a shock to the lovers of the "cup that cheers" that they will 'most likely have to pay higher for their special fancy in. the atear future, as the tea market both at Calcutta and Colombo is very firm. During the last year or two it is estimated that the price of tea. lias advanced quite twopence per pound wholesale, and although merchants and importers | are naturally very reluctant to raise /the price of a commodity in. such constant use, it is to bo feared they, will soon he compelled to consider the question of an increase. Of course, if Russia does take off some of the duty on tea, it would immediately cause a sharp advance in. price, apart fexm that which has already taken place. At the present time the dnty on tea in. Russia is Is 9d per pound, land if oaaly the odd figure was removed it would raise the price for the rest of the work!., as the consumption of tea in Russia, would increase correspondingly.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10534, 22 January 1912, Page 4
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197THE PRICE OF TEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10534, 22 January 1912, Page 4
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