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concerned. The Tata Iron and Steel Works
are by far fAe one largest and most profit-
able industry thoroughly established in this
country for which the people's warmest grati-
tude is due to the great pioneer.
Coming to the other large enterprise it
may be observed, as has been readily acknow-
ledged, that the original idea of harnessing
the waters of the Western Ghauts for utilising
them as a power was communicated to
Mr. Tata by a local engineer, of sagacity and
keen observation, the late Mr. David Gostling.
Like the idea of the other scheme, it was long
revolved and revolved by Mr. Tata before
bringing it to a practical head. And indeed
it is a lucky circumstance for Bombay that
the evolution of the scheme should have been
so well considered by Mr. Tata during his
life time. In his opening speech, on the
occasion of the ceremony of laying the found-
ation stone of the duct at Lonavla by Lord
Sydenham in 1911, Sir Dorab J. Tata, the
eldest son of Mr. Tata, observed as Chairman
of the Tata Hydro-Electric Power Supply
Company that though his father was not the
first to recognise the adaptability of the
Ghaut fall of waters for utilising it as power,
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concerned. The Tata Iron and Steel Works
are by far fAe one largest and most profit-
able industry thoroughly established in this
country for which the people's warmest grati-
tude is due to the great pioneer.
Coming to the other large enterprise it
may be observed, as has been readily acknow-
ledged, that the original idea of harnessing
the waters of the Western Ghauts for utilising
them as a power was communicated to
Mr. Tata by a local engineer, of sagacity and
keen observation, the late Mr. David Gostling.
Like the idea of the other scheme, it was long
revolved and revolved by Mr. Tata before
bringing it to a practical head. And indeed
it is a lucky circumstance for Bombay that
the evolution of the scheme should have been
so well considered by Mr. Tata during his
life time. In his opening speech, on the
occasion of the ceremony of laying the found-
ation stone of the duct at Lonavla by Lord
Sydenham in 1911, Sir Dorab J. Tata, the
eldest son of Mr. Tata, observed as Chairman
of the Tata Hydro-Electric Power Supply
Company that though his father was not the
first to recognise the adaptability of the
Ghaut fall of waters for utilising it as power,
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