AFFAIRS IN INDIA
FOREIGN CLOTHES BOYCOTT. BOMBAY, July 31. In the presence of thousands of people, including many delegates to the All-India Congress Committee, Gandhi made a bonfire of an enormous heap of foreign clothes. BOUNTEOUS RAIN. DELHI, August 1. Since the middle of July an excellent well-distributed rain has fallen in the districts where the shortage prevailed. A continuation of the rain is necessary till tho middle of September to ensure the success of the monsoon, and the prospects are distinctly bright. BURMA AND INDIA. DELHI, July 30. The Burmese Legislature has strongly supported a resolution favouring the early separation of Burma from the Indian Empire. The Chief Secretary, answering these arguments, said that the Government was convinced that separation was inevitable, but the present time was not convenient. \Yy ndham is securing a Friendly Societies’ medical dispensary, negotiations having been ■satisfactorily concluded for the purchase bv the local Oddfellows and Foresters of the pharmacy owned by ihe estate of the late J. R. Thompson.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3517, 9 August 1921, Page 21
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