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Feilding Star, Volume XX, Issue 62, 12 September 1898, Page 4

A GREAT TRUTH. OUR AMBITION Is to ensure to tbe tea-drinker, at a fair and reasonable cost, tbe best article obtainable for his or her money. That we bave reached THE GOAL of our ambition is evidenced by the rapid growth of our buainess. We attribute tbe POPULARITY Of our Teas to the confidence reposed in ub by the public, for whom we shall ever strive to maintain tbe quality of our products. We do not sell the crude article. We blend our teas. We employ an expert blender. "We use judgment. We thus secure— (a) Uniformity of quality ; (b) Fixity of price ; and (c) Full value for the consumer. Onr blends range from ls lOd to 3s psr lb, aod we can highly recommend them all, but for a really first- class Tea at a moderate price, the CRESCENT BLEND At QM; Pee Lb. CANNOT BE EXCELLED. THE EMPIRE COMPANY WELLINGTON. W. AND G. TURNBULL and Co., Proprietors. Hm^S<^__B J _j ' ■ __| ' IJ\ 1 B_f_| ■_________~^^-:______B_____B_____________H____B___i Bode Agents— BRAMWELL BROS. MWBWWagP— M^WWW""MIIH !■ ".»_*i „___ _aM_3 Siva * _fl !iF_'J H6 ■ * _a i • 1 1 K 91 B J Sft &r Mano/3epersi/adeW7o\ 3qymy a/Me //n/fa//om\ \ ' ns^fflJte}W9 ' 1 ( (Awan/ed ' Cofi/aacfSi/verJlfafo/s) C£YW#O/iM£JWfpr&ls TfiwarspurvandwMescr/itf T/ieoesf money a/id experience can Jbtm . lar<resfsa/e/aAißfra/asm. \ fjOLD BY ALL GROCERS J TRICKS IN THE TEA TRADE. A ~New Zedlander's Complaint to the Ceylon Tea-Growers' Association. IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, and when the copyist embarks in his nefarious business he insvariably selects some article with an established reputation to simulate. The genuine article suffers in two ways ; it loses business by the substitution of the fraud and loses character by its inferiority. — The latest information regarding such practices reaches us from Ceylo". In that great tea growing Island there is a Council of thirty who watch over the interests of the Tea Planters' Association, and their attention has been drawn to what is going on in this colony. The following extract from a letter discussed by tbe Association from a gentleman in the South Island of New Zealand indicates what is going on in this Colony ; the letter appears in the Overland Ceylon Observer of 16th June, 1898:— " In the first place much tea is sold in " New Zealand under the name of Ceylon " which is nothing more than blends of " low class grades with China, Fiji, and " other poor teas. These are packed «• locally and SOLD AS CETLON. I " have been able to trace one instance m " which locally-packed Teas, made up in " lead packets, have been labelled Ceylon, "and the labels bear the imprint of C. B, " Hall, printer, Colombo. On enquiry, "1 am assured that no such pnntei "exists; hence the label is. nothing "ibss than a FORGERY, for the pur- " pose of giving the only available guar* " antee of a genuine Coy lon packed "packet— viz., the printer's name.. I "have evidence, also, of instances where " the 51b boxes have been made and are " now locally made out of the wood of "empty chests, thus using Ceylon "timber lined with lead and stencilled "in imitation of the Ceylon packed " article." THE BEST SAFEGUARD for the public is to rigorously demand to be supplied with a Tea that is above suspicion. SURATURA TEA has no rival m tbis respect ; no one has yet had the hardihood to attempt tricks on it, as its Agents are too jealous of its high reputation to give a chance to imitators, and the imitators know this and are wise in their generation. THE TJIMBLEM OP PURITY 1 IS WHITE 1 Therefore, use only the Empire Co.'a ROYAL BLUE. It makes linen white as the driven snow. THE EMPIBE COMPANY, Wellington. mHE* WANGANUI AMERICAN INSTITUTE, having acquire a the latest up-to-date treatments for Ihe Bi-ohlor.de of God CURE of ALCOHOLISM and NARCOTISM, are receiving Patients for the oute of the Drink Craving. i For full particulars address ! J. S. THOMSON, j Manager, Wftßgwrai. I

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