ABSTRACT
In his lecture in the Madras Exhibition, Sir Frederick Nicholson dealt with the great abundance of vegetable oils available in India for soap manufacture, the available supplies of alkalis, and the extent and potentiality of the Indian market. He pointed out that the small 5 per cent import duty, though imposed for revenue, and also gave protection to Indian manufacture. If ability to speak and understand a second language were also tested, Madras would show far better results than London, and South India than England. When Lord Pentland, who had previously been Secretary of State for Scotland, arrived in Madras as Governor in October 1912, he saved as much as possible out of the wreck of the Madras Department of Industries, and the Exhibition in December 1915 was inspired by the same motives. When the United Provinces of Oudh and Agra echoed the voice of Madras there was a chance than Simla would hear.
