Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — Tea Drinking In Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Tea Drinking In Ireland.

In a return just issued it is stated that in Ireland over six pounds of tea per head of the population are consumed yearly. The consumption per head has remained practically stationary for the last five years, but increased about one pound per head in the preceding ten years. There is no other European country, with the exception of Holland, where the consumption of tea exceeds one pound per head. It muse be remembered that under the Tory War Budget each of these pounds of tea coat the poor sixpence in taxation.—New York News.