INDIAN AFFAIRS
PUNJAB HYDRO. [BY CABLE —PBESB ASSN. —00PYBIGHT.] DELHI. March 11. The Viceroy opened the. huge Government hydro electric works at Mandi in the Punjab, supplying cheap power and light from the. Bhl and Lonbadag rivers to a network of cities and towns in the Punjab. The first stage has taken seven years to construct. It cost five and a-quarter million sterling. When completed it will be one of the biggest in the world. ALFONSO’S DEPARTURE CALCUTTA, March 11. Ex-King Alfonso, after a tiger shooting expedition, has left Secundrabad for England. DISEASE EPIDEMICS. CALCUTTA, March 12. India is being swept by epidemicsIn the past week in Bombay alone, 346 died from plague and 351 from smallpox.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 5
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