EXPANSION SOUGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 124, 28 May 1925, Page 7

EXPANSION SOUGHT.

COLONISATION SCHEMES. i , MOVEMENTS IN INDIA. CALCUTTA. May 21. Two new colonisation schemes aw reported in India. A number of Par Foes. under Sir Vl. ,C. Dinshaw. a leading merchant, .itg (proceeding in Basra, with a view 10 ; examining the prospects in Persia for 'colonisation, nnd to inspect generally the conditions of Zoroastrianism. Calcutta Parsees, while most sympathetic with any manifestation of the I growing desire* of Indian Parsees to I understand the national movement in I their homeland, are sceptical as to the 'feasibility of Indian Parsees undertaking a colonisation movement oa a large scale. The other colonisation venture, is by Anglo-Indians, under an ex-officer of the Indian Army, to tlie Andaman Islands. A previous Anglo-Indian venture to the Andarnans was unsuccessful, because the men were of the wrong type. The present project is considered to have a Ix'tter chance of success, but it is doubtful whether a town-bred community, hampered by dissentions and economically ground between Europeans and Anglo-Indians, will ever succeed in r>ii-:h a hazardous pioneer experiment.