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Speeches Delivered by His Excellency the Right Honourable Lawrence John Lumely Dundas Earl of Ronaldshay Governor of Bengal during 1921-22

1922

It was said of him on that occasion that he was preminently qualified for the leadership of his educated countrymen by reason of the massiveness of his intellect the sturdy independence of his character "1.9 the -moderation of his views and the sobriety and soundness of his judgment A great scholar himself' lie was a great patron of learning and by his princely gifts to the Hindu University [...] The -Indian Christian community likewik erected a memorial of their own in the shape of a tablet in the Mission Church and at a meeting comprising all classes and all creeds amongst the residents of Kalimpong it was decided appropriately -enough that the people generally should erect a memorial in the shape of the extesion of the industrial workshops from - which they and their children had be [...] We tlo not propose to recite before Your Excellency the details of the different stoppages which have taken place; but it is a fact that throughout Eastern Bengal in particular owing to the stoppage of railway and steamer traffic the merchants and traders' in all the commercial centres of the Dacca and-Chittagong Divisions have been put to great loss through the failure of the companies to.deli [...] I explained the nature and functions of the Board at the inaugural meeting held on the 18th March 1920 ; and i need only.remind you now that it is primarily a body of experts engaged upon the scientific investigation of the agricultural prolems of the Presidency whose duty it is to advise Government with regard to them ; but that it welcomes the suggestions of others who are interested in agr [...] which the lives of the vast majority of the people 01 Bengal are indissolubly bound up is now in the hands of one of your own people who in 'turn is responsible to the representatives of the people freely elected by them to the Legislative Council You will I am.
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Speeches Delivered by His Excellency During 1921-22
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