ABSTRACT
The low and medium priced teas come from the plantations of India and Ceylon. Although nominally independent, the plantation companies fall into a number of groups for marketing and general management. Their policies are determined by boards of directors who live in Britain ; and such firms of merchants as James Finlay and Co, Octavius Steel and Co, George Williamson and Co, Rowe, White and Co, are each of them agents and secretaries of six, eight or more companies concerned in planting tea and rubber in India, Ceylon and Africa. Frequently directors of these merchant firms sit on boards of several planting companies. The cultivation and picking of the tea requires a good deal of unskilled labour which is obtained very cheaply as a result of strong organisation of the planters. The tea planters had learnt their lesson, and in the following year a new restriction scheme was agreed upon by associations of Indian, Ceylon and Dutch East Indies producers.
