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I What’s I A FARTHING I got to do with tea? Tea is sold at public auction and bidding normally advances by the equivalent of a farthing a pound. A tap of the hammer and Hr “the lot” (normally between jo and 40 chests of 100 lb. each) is knocked down to a buying broker. Two or three lots are sold ra a minute, so by the end of the day two million lb. or more of tea will have been bought. Fluctations in prices depend basically on world demand and world supply. Growers cannot hold back tea to create an artificial shortage because tea deteriorates if kept too long in the tropics. Of course the best teas—such as high grown g| Ceylon— bring the best prices at auction, which is why price ■ is always some guide to quality. ENJOY THE LIVELY TASTE OF TEA ENDURING QUALITIES are t«a'» NEW AND EXCITING ate the unique ability to warm, cool, cheer ffeeh qualities of flavour and livelier calm you. Tea is the one drink nets the planters are developing in that ia right throughout your entire their teas. Like all growing and living life, right in all places, right at all things, the tea-bush is capable of times. Whether you want to in- development and variation and the duce a change of mood, gently people of Ceylon are constantly and heathily, to refresh yourseff spending money and energy on or just to have a sociable chat research to improve the characterover a “cuppa”, nothing refreshea istics of their superb teas. Benefit and revives like the clean lively from these advances in wodrra teas by taste of tea. always buying a good quality blend. Remember Ceylon is the home of GOOD TEA H INSERTED BY THE TEA BUREAU HI

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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 22

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Page 22 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 22

Page 22 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 22