Concerning Tea.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 104, 19 September 1901, Page 3

Concerning Tea.

Extract from the Tablet, August 15lh. l'QOl.)

The over-produotiou of lea at the pres"nt time is ca'jsin? much anxiety to planters "in Geylon. Thiy are trying to remedy this state of aff.ara by impressing up.'n certain growers how much rrnre ■profitable it would be-in the long run to cultivate -good kinds, and pvy more ■attention to the maimfac ute. The growers tit and agentH for this inferijr Class of tea ship in the bti'k, and having no reputation to lose get rid of l it tlife best way they can in the markots ot rhe world. A number of tea estite3 in Ceylon have had for a numb .r of years a raputatiou for producing a very superior article, and consequently they have a r-guhr market. Tueir teas are carofuliy grown, manufactured, and packed, so that the 'consumer, who fancies a ceitairi brand, is stire of getting io. Wejlostiblishfd firms take the precaution of sending out their tea in packages which cannot he tampered witir. This is tb.3 Teason that so ma ;h 3trcß3 u laid on tne fict that Hondai-L-lnkais '• packed and sealed in Ceylon." The growers of this tea received firs!- awards at the Paris Exhibition, and naturally eziough b\ ey are anxious to conserve the reputation which their tea enjoys, by packing it under thoir own supervision and thus guaranteeing to the consumer its purity and excellence. Thi3 brand is now we'lknown in this'colony, and the proprietor has been appointed special purveyor to the Dominican .Convents in Otago and Southland.