Council of State Debates Official Report Monday 18th September 1922

Before deciding the question whether the emigration of unskilled labour to the colony should be resumed or not the Government of India propose to await the report of the deputation which they sent to the colony to inquire into the conditions of the Indians already there and the suitability of the country for Indian colonization. [...] The HowouRABLE MAHARAJA Slit MANINDRA CHANDRA NANDY : Has the attention of the Government been drawn to the indination caused in Calcutta particularly in the commercial industrial and mercantile world by the announcement of the increases contemplated by the Bengal Telephone Company in their schedule of rates and in view of the above does the Government intend to call upon the company to r [...] Unless account is taken of the wear and tear the interest the depreciation and the sinking fund for the lines put up and for the signalling machines supplied to the Combined Pcsi Offices it would not be fair to credit that portion of the income to the Postal l)epartment. [...] We do not know who delivered it ; we only carry the message ; it does not contain the signature of the man '; all the same the telegraph is more speedy and the post office is slow and so just as the horse has come to be preferred to the bullock the telegraph has come to be preferred to the post office. [...] How are you going to bring it about unless you have got a surplus and unless this surplus is utilised as suggested in the second part of my Resolution for the expansion and the improvement of the post office ? And one of the objects of the utilisation of the profits will be the betterment.of the status salaries and prospects of the post office employees.