THE NATIONAL DEINK
TEA RETAINS PLACE IN BRITAIN OTTAWA, Aug. 1. The Englishman’s fondness for a “dish of tea” is one of his bestknown characteristics, a matter that rarely fails to intrigue the foreigner. For its companion mealtime beverage, he has never had much liking. Coffee when first introduced into the country was fashionable, but has never become popular, Tea was and is (lie poor man’s brew and his taste for the “cup that cheers and not inebriates” is growing, according to figures published to-day by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. In Hie first seven months of this year, the United Kingdom imported 408,141 pounds of coffee but re-export-ed more than 295,000 pounds, retaining only 202,452 pounds for homo consumption. In the same period the United Kingdom imported for home consumption 224,451,000 pounds of tea, and a further 40,179,000 pounds for reexport. This means an average consumption of a little more than eight pounds of tea yearly for every man, woman, and child in the. country. The consumption of cocoa is three times that of coffee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 10
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