Extract from the New Zealand Times, January 22, 1901.
EXTENSIVE IMPORTATIONS. 300,0001b. TEA.
Few people ever stop to think, when measuring out a teaspoonful or when buying a pound of tea, of the enormous quantity required to supply the people of New Zealand. A visit to the wharf during tha past month would have been an eye-opener. Nelson, Moate and Co., Limited, receive shipmfints of tea by almost every steamer from Ceylon and India throughout the year, and have landed, during the last thr^e weeks alcne, tho huge amount of 300,000 pounds, which is enough tea to provide every man, woman and child in New Zealand with 34 cups each of strong tea. NeJson, Moite and Co., Limited, are the leading tea merchants in the Australasian colonies, a position which they have gained solely by giving the public a really good article,- v
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 March 1901, Page 2
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