It is to be regretted that all the different makes of margarine have been blended, and all private marks extinguished. So there will be no incentive for manufacturers, to produce anything but the worst.
But the tea pool has been abandoned like the fish pool fiasco. Only this evening we received a joyful notification from the firm which has always supplied us with tea since we left China that it has a few 5 lb. chests of Keemuns it we want them. Do we want them! I am all for the Empire and hands across the sea and that sort of thing, but to drink anything but China tea seems to me monstrous. And the thought of being offered Whitehall ersatz tea!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.