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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 19 May 1904, Page 20

Tihe recent reduction in the duty of British-grown tea reminds us that a preferential tariff would have no such effect less than 40 years ago, for at that time the bulk of our tea came from China. It was in the late *30's, on the failure of the coffee industry, that the cultivation of tea on a large scale was undertaken in Ceylon. Since that time its production has made rapid progress owing to careful selection of seed and the use of machinery in its manufacture. As a result we have now a tea, which for quality and price was unknown a generation ago 1 . The extension of commerce has made it possible for the best kinfd, such as H'cmdai-Lanka, to be brought direct from the estate to the purchaser, so that ttfie consiumer is guaranteed that he receives only the finest product of the Spicy 151e....