TEA FROM QUEENSLAND
THE ECONOMIC BARRIER SYDNEY, Jan. 10 A retired tea planter living in Sydney, Mr. J. R. Vincent, expressed the opinion that enough tea could he grown in North Queensland to satisfy the entire needs of Australia. Mr. Vincent. who had many years' experience of tea grow iiiy; in Travaneore, in southwest India, declares that conditions are ideal in North Queensland, where women and children could be put to tea-plucking. Commenting in Brisbane on the proposal, the Queensland .Minister of Agriculture said tea growing in Queensland was not an economic possibility under Australian industrial conditions. Nevertheless. his department experimentally had grown good tea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 10
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