Tea Revives?
p. 147 · Read in the full issue
“Australia takes some 38 mil lion lb of tea from Ceylon, and is Ceylon’s fourth largest customer. In 1900 Australia claimed to be the greatest tea drinking country in the world, averaging over 7i lb per head a year, but she has lost ground since and now drinks some H lb per head less than in 1900.”
These are some of the facts to be found in the interesting and useful A Hundred Years of Ceylon Tea, 1867-1967, by D.
M. Forrest, just published by Chatto and Windus at $5.30.