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lhiumla\iau dimt*
Registered No. C3032
INDEX NUMBER OF WHOLESALE
PRiCES
The official wholesale price index
at 374.0 (with the year ended August
193!) as 100) recorded a further decline
of 4 9 per cent during the week ended
March 8, 1952, as compared with 393.8
(revised) for the previous week. Relative
to the corresponding weeks of last month
and a year ago the index was lower
by 10.2 and 11.9 per cent respectively.
The index for ‘Foodstuffs’ showed
an appreciable fall of 4 per cent to
339.5 during the week under review
owing to lower prices of Gur (-18%),
Dal Arhar (-16%), Wheat at Jubbulpur
(-6%), Rice at Parna (-4%), Jower (-7%),
Gram (-5%), Tea (-3%), and Coffee (-1%).
The index for 1 Industrial Raw
Materials ’ registered a further fall of
13.5 per cent to 406.3 as compared with
469.5 (revised) for the previous week.
Items which recorded significant declines
during the week were, Cotton raw. Jute
raw and Groundnut seed (-15% each),
Cotton seed (-25%), Wool raw (-22%),
Copra (-21%), Kape seed ( 19%), Linseed
(-10%), C-’kins raw and lac (-9% each),
Manganese ore, Castor and Gingelly seeds
(-7% each', Hides raw (-4%) and Silk
(-3%)
Notwithstanding a rice of 4 per
cent in Machinery, the index for Mann
factures’fell by 1 per cent to 386 0 from
390 0 (revised) for the previous week,
on account of a drop of 12 per cent
in the prices of Jute manufactures.
Lower prices of Spices (-17%),
Tobacco-leaf and Cashewnuts (-5% each),
brought down the ‘Miscellaneous’ group
index bv 0 1 per cent to 650.1.—FIB.
Number of
Male & Female Voters
for
the ensuing
Municipal
election—1952.
Ward No. ?
so. of male
No. of female
Total
voters
voters
i
199
37
236
ii
120
35
155
hi
210
50
260
IV
94
19
113
V
200
56
306
VI
15S
66
224
VII
95
31
126
VIII
97
40
137
IX
21
...
21
X
270
100
370
Total
1514
434
1948
GOLD
NECLACE
IN THIEF’S
STOMACH
Calcutta. March 16.
Medical x ray in a Calcutta hospital
yesterday was held in detecting a case
of theft.
While a train steamed in Sealdah
railway station day before yesterday the
necklace of a nine year-old girl wassnatched
away. The miscreant attempted to run
away but was caught by the passengers.
In order to delude them he swallowed
the necklace and posed tc be innocent.
Police sent him for x’rav examination
this morning and the gold chain along
with the locket was seen in his stomach.
When produced before court yes-
terday the magistrate sent him back to
police custody with instructions to give
him strong purgative and keep constant
watch on his stools.
Printed & published by 8. C. Jain, for Himalayan Industrial & Trading
Corporation Ltd. at the Himalayan Printing Works. Kalimpouir.
lhiumla\iau dimt*
Registered No. C3032
INDEX NUMBER OF WHOLESALE
PRiCES
The official wholesale price index
at 374.0 (with the year ended August
193!) as 100) recorded a further decline
of 4 9 per cent during the week ended
March 8, 1952, as compared with 393.8
(revised) for the previous week. Relative
to the corresponding weeks of last month
and a year ago the index was lower
by 10.2 and 11.9 per cent respectively.
The index for ‘Foodstuffs’ showed
an appreciable fall of 4 per cent to
339.5 during the week under review
owing to lower prices of Gur (-18%),
Dal Arhar (-16%), Wheat at Jubbulpur
(-6%), Rice at Parna (-4%), Jower (-7%),
Gram (-5%), Tea (-3%), and Coffee (-1%).
The index for 1 Industrial Raw
Materials ’ registered a further fall of
13.5 per cent to 406.3 as compared with
469.5 (revised) for the previous week.
Items which recorded significant declines
during the week were, Cotton raw. Jute
raw and Groundnut seed (-15% each),
Cotton seed (-25%), Wool raw (-22%),
Copra (-21%), Kape seed ( 19%), Linseed
(-10%), C-’kins raw and lac (-9% each),
Manganese ore, Castor and Gingelly seeds
(-7% each', Hides raw (-4%) and Silk
(-3%)
Notwithstanding a rice of 4 per
cent in Machinery, the index for Mann
factures’fell by 1 per cent to 386 0 from
390 0 (revised) for the previous week,
on account of a drop of 12 per cent
in the prices of Jute manufactures.
Lower prices of Spices (-17%),
Tobacco-leaf and Cashewnuts (-5% each),
brought down the ‘Miscellaneous’ group
index bv 0 1 per cent to 650.1.—FIB.
Number of
Male & Female Voters
for
the ensuing
Municipal
election—1952.
Ward No. ?
so. of male
No. of female
Total
voters
voters
i
199
37
236
ii
120
35
155
hi
210
50
260
IV
94
19
113
V
200
56
306
VI
15S
66
224
VII
95
31
126
VIII
97
40
137
IX
21
...
21
X
270
100
370
Total
1514
434
1948
GOLD
NECLACE
IN THIEF’S
STOMACH
Calcutta. March 16.
Medical x ray in a Calcutta hospital
yesterday was held in detecting a case
of theft.
While a train steamed in Sealdah
railway station day before yesterday the
necklace of a nine year-old girl wassnatched
away. The miscreant attempted to run
away but was caught by the passengers.
In order to delude them he swallowed
the necklace and posed tc be innocent.
Police sent him for x’rav examination
this morning and the gold chain along
with the locket was seen in his stomach.
When produced before court yes-
terday the magistrate sent him back to
police custody with instructions to give
him strong purgative and keep constant
watch on his stools.
Printed & published by 8. C. Jain, for Himalayan Industrial & Trading
Corporation Ltd. at the Himalayan Printing Works. Kalimpouir.