Wacha, Dinshaw Edulji; Tata, Jamsetji Nasarwanji [Honoree]: The life and life work of J. N. Tata (Madras, 1914)

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spindle logically led to a fresh survey of the
improvement of the indigenous varieties of
long stapled cotton and the more extensive
cultivation there-of on the Egyptian method-
Fine yarn signifies cotton of a superior grade
and strong test. Mr. Tata, here too, was the
very first to draw the attention of his brother
mill owners in a practical manner. His third
great enterprise was also in reference to
the cotton industry. It was the serious ques-
tion of freight of yarn bales exported to China.
There was a combine of the principle navi-
gation companies, detrimental to the large
exporters of yarn to Hongkong and Shanghai.
Absence of competition was the opportunity
of the combine. The monopoly in freight
Mr. Tata strenously strove to break down.
Alone he did it. He interested some of the
more important Japanese Liners to bring silks
and coal from Japan and carry in return
cotton and yarn. At the time Japan was no
competitor in the markets of China for Indian
yarn. But it absorbed itself a large quantity of
the same. Again, its imports of Indian cotton
were a trifle. Thus it suited the Japanese lines
to carry freight to and fro. The enterprise was
full of risk and exceedingly bold. But bold-

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