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(4) Apprentices learning one business can learn 

 the other in the same place. 



(5) The opportunity offers of showing that the 

 business may be carried on with (a) small and (d) medium 

 plant requiring {a) a few hundred rupees, (d) live or 

 six thousand rupees as capital. This is what the coast 

 people do not understand. 



3. I propose an expenditure not exceeding Rs. 7,500 

 in setting up (a) a petty plant suitable for a simple 

 fisherman or curer or syndicate of the same ; (^d) a 

 medium plant suitable for a small capitalist or group of 

 capitalists, 



4. For (a) I shall simply provide (i) two or three 

 open pan furnaces, (2) a small manual press, (3) a few 

 vats, tubs and barrels with mat shedding and drying 

 ground ; in (i) the fish will be cooked, in the vats the 

 oil and water will drain off, in (2) they will be squeezed 

 for further oil ; the barrels arc needed for the export of 

 oil. Rupees 1,000 should be ample for these needs. 



For (d) I shall provide (i) a steam boiler of 4 h.p. 

 nominal, and probably a suitable engine, (2) 3 or 4 open 

 wooden vats for cooking by steam coils, (3) a larger 

 press than for (a), driven by power if I have an engine ; 



(4) a variety of draining and settling tanks, barrels, etc. ; 



(5) a few small iron-roofed sheds and drying ground. 

 The steam boiler with injector, all steam connections, 

 etc., costs in Madras, at the Public Works Workshops, 

 below Rs. 1,000 ; with engine below Rs. 1,800 ; the press 

 may cost nearly the same ; the steam cookers Rs. 150 

 each; and so forth. I calculate Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 6,500 

 as a probable figure. 



5. For the above sum, p/?is running cost, I can open 

 a useful factory ; if it is, for any reason, a failure, Govern- 

 ment may lose somewhat in selling the plant ; if it suc- 

 ceeds. Government can sell, if they wish, at full value 

 and will have established a valuable industry without 

 cost. As a matter of fact I know that certain small 

 capitalists are waiting for a lead exactly in this way and 

 matter. 



6. Of course if Government wish, I am prepared to 

 put in proposals and estimates for about half a lakh as I 

 have full data for such plant ; this would be a full sized 

 concern, and I do not recommend starting in this fashion : 

 moreover it would be simply competing with existing 



