TRADE IN INDIA
PROMISING OUTLOOK
The arrivals by the Marama from Sydney today included Captain W. A. Hancock, deputy marine superintendent of the British India Steam Navigation Co.; Ltd., at Calcutta, and Mrs. Hancock. \ , " Trade in India was improving, Captain Hancock told a "Post" reporter, and very few of the British India ships were laid up. The prospects for the future in.Calcutta were very promising. An important factor was the much more friendly feeling that now existed between the Europeans and the Bengalis. Generally speaking, there did not seeni to bo so much agitation as previously in the country, and a better understanding had come about between the two races. Captain Hancock is on seven months' leave, and he and Mrs. Hancock will spend a month in New Zealand and some time in Tasmania before returning to Calcutta. < ' "
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 29 January 1934, Page 10
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138TRADE IN INDIA Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 29 January 1934, Page 10
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