Four and a half million pounds of tea, tho largest cargo yet recorded this season, were shipped froih Calcutta to London by the liner City of Yokohama in 46.840 chests. The duty alone on this quantity amounts to £125.000. Farm labour was obtained in Devqnshore a century ago by farmers “bidding” for the services of poor lads of eight .or nine; these boys had to remain in the service - of the highest bidders until they were twenty-one years of age. (The cable news In this issue accredited to the London “Times” has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinio? or "The Times.”).
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 97, 19 January 1924, Page 7
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