Kenya Tea Growers' Association and tea marketing, 1954-2003

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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.

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MS. 20574/2

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