RAILWAYS IN INDIA.
Of vast importance to the British "Empire is the intention to spend some fifty millions m developing the railway system.ofUjoJ^ JVJs known -♦Wrarery large proportion of the wheat actually produced m India is wasted,- because of the insufficiency of existing means of getting it to market. It is also known, by the careful reports of experts, that vast tracts which are peculiarly adapted to wheat cultivation are now lying useless, and that, although the present production of wheat m the Empire is between 200,000,000, and 240,000,000 bushels annually, it could almost immediately be doubled were communication established. With an adequate development of the railway system, it is probable that India may vie with America as the granary of the world.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1571, 2 December 1885, Page 2
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