London, July 24.
Presiding at the annual meeting of the Indian Tea Association, Mr. Gerald Kingsley stated that the Association's inquiries showed no indication of any tea-producing country resorting to coarse plucking and therefore the aggregate crops were not likely to be abnormal. According to estimates they would certainly be less than the average crops of 1915 to 1919 inclusive. If the estimates were correct and the world's consumption remained the same as last year, it meant that 12 months hence they would start a new
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