(Continued from Page 89.) each of them many blends, it is easy to see that someone is' going to be left behind, and it will be practically impossible to execute promptly any cabled order. The constant interference by the ployees of the Bureau also will not help matters in the godown, Article V states in part coloured tea, the Bureau with the "approval of the Ministry set a definite "period of years to permit such export "temperily in North Africa,"
As the customer in North Africa insists on coloured tea surely it would be better for the Ministry to wait until the various Governments concerned show a disinclination to allow the import of this coloured tea, The above article reminds one of "teaching one's grandmother etc."
The exporters are at one with the Government in wishing to-see better tea on the market, and the sugi tion has been made that the frst thing to do is te try and improve the tea bushes and the manufacture of the leaf in the factories. There appears however to be little hope of this sound suggestion being carried out as the plan would require money to be spent, whereas the Government is looking for money to collect.
All the above is unfortunately only another illustration of the inability jof the Chines Tea Guild has protested: against the installation of this Bureau in Shanghai, but anyone who has read Judge Feetham's Report, Volum¢ No, 2 will easily understand that they have no hope whatsoever against a Government Departme The export of China tea is a mere fleabite compared with the combined, exports of India, Ceylon and Java, but in, these countries the various Governments do all they can to help export, not to hinder—R.G.M.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.