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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1949
Page
1
An overview of global tea production and estate communities detailing cultivation, processing steps from seed to leaf, and the social structure on estates. It notes large labour forces, estate hospitals and rice fields, lifelong residency, and basic processing stages including rolling, fermenting, and firing.
The article describes tea seed germination in damp pits and planting depths, seed bed dimensions, and watering during dry spells. It covers transplanting methods in India, Ceylon, and Java, explains tea leaf grading names like Orange Pekoe, and details factory processes from plucking to packing and tasting by tea-tasters. It also notes warnings against trespass and the logistics of moving leaf to Australia aboard ox-wagons and liners.
Tenders are invited for supply and delivery of Mountain Gum firewood blocks to Cloncurry Hospital. Delivery to be arranged and prepared for measurement at the hospital as directed. Tenders close noon 15 June.
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