Kenya Tea Growers' Association and tea marketing, 1954-2003
File
MS. 20574/2
Held in our offsite storage facility
File 1: Kenya Tea Growers' Association papers comprising:
- Censuses of labour and dependants employed by members of the Kenya Tea Growers' Association, 1980-2002.
- Executive officer's statistical report on membership and land holdings, 1976-2002.
File 2: Kenya Tea Growers' Association papers comprising:
- Tea Board of Kenya licence holders, 1959.
- Rules of the Kenya Tea Growers' Association, 1954, and constitution and rules, n.d.
- Notes on district planting of tea from 1938 to 1943.
- Chronology of the Kenya Tea Growers' Association from its formation in 1931 to 1934.
- Notes on the minutes of the Kenya Tea Growers' Association from 1932 to 1951.
- Notes on topics appearing in the minutes of the Kenya Tea Growers' Association, namely excise duty (1931-1935), tea cess (1933-1937), Lumbwa Road (1933-1940), railway rates (1939) and eucalyptus snout beetle (1945).
- Notes on the East Africa Tea Association from 1935 to 1944.
- Figures for the population of the Kericho Estates in 1941.
- Notes on the founding of the Tea Research Institute in 1950.
- Figures and estimates for estate and district production of various Kenyan tea growers from the 1920s to the 1950s.
File 3: Material on tea marketing and the Pool comprising:
- Notes on Brooke Bond files from 1935 to 1938.
- Notes on war time contracts from Brooke Bond files, 1938-1942.
- Notes on Pool Reports, 1941-1944, and on Douglas McWilliam's 1944 memorandum on the tea distribution agreement from Brooke Bond files.
- Notes on the Uganda Tea Association from 1937 to 1944.
- Notes on the Tea Cess Board from 1937 to 1951.
- Notes on consumption within East Africa from 1932 to 1939.
- Notes on Pool Reports from 1945 to 1955 from the Brooke Bond files.
- Notes on price control from 1945 to 1952 from the Brooke Bond files.
- Notes on the Advisory Committee from 1947 to 1956 from the Brooke Bond files.
- McWilliam's review of the Pool in 1957.
- Tea Controller statistics, 1940-1958, including Kenya tea acreages, tea prices, East African sales, tea costs to London, East Africa tea production, salaries and East African and Nyasaland coffee sales and costings.
- Memorandum on the sales organisation in East Africa, The Tea Chest, in 1956.
- Summary of KETEPA (Kenya Tea Packers Ltd), c. 1980.
- Notes on estate production costs from 1939 to 1945.
- Notes on consumption per head/district from 1949 to 1956.
- Notes on Pool valuations from 1948 to 1957.
- Notes on tea auction in Kenya, 1956.
- East African Tea Trade Association, 1956 -2003.
Dates
- 1954-2003
Extent
3 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 20574/2
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk