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Otago Witness, Issue 3594, 30 January 1923, Page 26

A large importer, who has spent a good deal of time in the tea-producing countries of the world, told a New Zealand Times reporter that New Zealand was the largest per capita tea drinking country in the world until Great Britain passed her in the last three or four years, her consumption in that time having increased to about 9lb per head, whereas New Zealand’s consumption is about Sib per head. Jn America it is about lib per head, but they make it up in the consumption of coffee, which is round about 1011) per head. At Tauranga a shed on piles a short distance from the shore, containing 75 tons of cement for use in connection "with the railway bridge across the harbour, collapsed and fell into the sea. About 10 tons were saved. It is presumed that the cause was the activity of the teredo below low water causing the piles to collapse. No one was working in the shed at the time. Ruins of a mysterious town covering ■mny acres and nearly 2000 years old have been found oil an island in Lake Superior, America.