A NEW TEA-GROWING COUNTRY.
Another tea-producing district is the latest novelty in the tea trade. Lately it was tea from Fiji, now it is the growth of Perak, situate in the Straits Settlements of the East Indies, where British capital and enterprise seem to have been employed with beneficial results. We learn from the Grocer that the first consignment to the London market has just taken place. It consisted of an invoice of seventy-eight half-chests from the "Perak" estate, where the tea has evidently been grown, cultivated, and manipulated by persons of considerable skill and experience in the industry. By expert valuers in " The Lane," the quality of this experimental shipment is favourably spoken of, and on its being offered in public sale it found ready buyers at full rates, namely, broken pekoe at Is o£d, pekoe at lljd, pekoe souchong at 9Jd, souchong (a single package) at the same price, and dust at 6Jd per lb.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2766, 5 April 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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157A NEW TEA-GROWING COUNTRY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2766, 5 April 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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