Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India October 1940

2. The Survey oontains two parts: the first part consists of separate notes dealing with the various economic activities of the country and describing Elie economic conditions of the month and the second gives the necessary general statistical data dealing with production trade and financial conditions. [...] The progressive figures must not therefore be understood as necessarily representing the sum of the monthly figures shown in the table or the sum of the latest month's figures and of the progressive figures published in the preceding month. [...] The progress reported in the stock position of Bombay mills in the preceding month was maintitined in October and at the end of the month mills in Bombay held considerably smaller stocks of both yarn and cloth than for sometime previously. [...] Stocks of sacing cloth and bags at the end of October 1940 were 17.8 crores of yards and registered a decrease of 2.5 crores of yards as compared with the previous month but an increase of 6.3 crores of yards as compared with the same month of last year. [...] The firmness of the market was in large measure due to the improvement in the stock position as a result of the stoppage of the mills for one week in every four from September to Noveber.