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COCOA AND CHOCOLATE TRADE. An article in the August number of the “Confectionery Journal” dealing with the growth of the cocoa and chocolate trade states that such increased 79 per cent, between 1911 and 1926 as against an increase in tobacco of 44 per cent. The increase in the usage of cocoa and chocolate in the United Kingdom in 1896 over the average of 1911 to 1913 is given below and is compared with the increase or decrease over the same period in certain other instances. The 1926 consumption compared with the average of 1911 to 1913; cocoa and chocolate 79 per cent, increase; tobacco* 44 per cent, increase; tea. 36 per cent, increase; coffee 26 per cent increase; sugar 4 per cent, increase ; beer, 39 per cent, decrease. The growth of the cocoa and chocolate trade, it is stated, has been made during the past 15 years in the face of the difficulties of the Great War and of the post-war slump in the national and international trade.
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Southland Times, Issue 20614, 12 October 1928, Page 11
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171INCREASED OUTPUT Southland Times, Issue 20614, 12 October 1928, Page 11
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