THE BURNING OF TEA
TO THE EDITOR Sir, —It is now a week since the arresting statement by Mr Gerald Harris, superintendent of big British tea estates in Ceylon, was published in your paper that thousands of pounds of tea had been destroyed. We are told that "every increase in price has been met with protests from housewives' associations in Australia. 1 would ask the housewives of Dunedin and New Zealand if.they are content to sit by and say nothing when it is blatantly announced that ."thousands of pounds of tea have been destroyed," and when the price of tea in Dunedin has gone up 6d per lb since the war began. The earth and its products belong to all the living. .Should we be content to let a few say whether we are to enjoy this abundance or. as now happens with food of all kinds, let us destroy to keep up the price?—l am, etc., A. S. M. Dunedin, September 17.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 5
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