INDUSTRIAL INDIA.
CHIEF OF THE. TROPICS. Progress in India under British rule ! indicates that the country is now the' chief industrial country in the tropics. This was the theme of an address delivered to the East India Association in London last month by Sir Montagu de P. Webb, ex-chairman of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce, and former member of the Indian Legislative Assembly. India, Sir Montagu said, was the eighth largest industrial country in the world. The enormous and increasing trade—last year totalling £288,000,000, with imports £255,000,000 —so improved the Government's position that for the first time for many years no sterling rupee loan had to be raised. Irrigation schemes in Sind, the Punjab, and the United Provinces would add to India's agricultural possibilities an area more than twice that of cultivated Egypt, and a volume of produce, wheat, cotton, rice, oil-seeds, etc., worth more than £50,000,000 a year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 7 September 1925, Page 4
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INDUSTRIAL INDIA.
Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 7 September 1925, Page 4
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