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The Story of the C.W.S.
Of the beginnings and continuations chiefly between 1895 and
1900 we have not yet exliausted the list. The drug works had
commenced m connection with the Newcastle Branch; the Pelaw
site had been purchased; the Rushden Boot Factory was built;
and developments were proceeding literally from Silvertown to
SydneJ^ But all these have their place elsewhere. This long
chapter closes at last ; and it closes amidst the shadows of the Boer
War and an Indian Famine. In 1899 the C.W.S. Committee were
granting the army reservists among the employees facilities for
rejoining the colours, and were responding to the call to " pay, pay,
pay." In the following year gifts of £1,000 and another £1,000 were
being made to the Indian Famine Fund, with, however, strong
expressions of opinion from the delegates that the British and
Indian Governments ought to prevent the necessity of such appeals.
Neither war nor famine as directly affecting the British Empire has
cast its gloom upon us since ; and looking back to the old century,
over the short interval of the dozen years, one is glad for these
reasons that the past is the past.

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TiiE Joint Tea Department of the English and Scottish Wholesale Societies,
Lejian Street, London, E., in 1913.

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