WRIGHTIA 

 WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES TIHCTORIA 



llillf ft imports are consigned to Bombay, one-third to Calcutta, 



ami the balance to Burma, Smd and Madras. Following the "piece 

 goods " come " shawls." During the five years et. 



manifested an average valuation ,.f KM. 33,07,816 (or, nay, 290,521). They 

 come rhi.'tlv fn>m Germany, from which the average annual amount 

 consigned to India for the five years ending 1906-7 showed a 

 of 159,324, while from Great Britain the quinquennial average cam* 

 only to 42,658. What i- r, far more significant, thi st. 



from the United Kingdom contracted from a n of Rn. 14,57,354 



in l!K)l-2 to Rs. 81.27'J in 1906-7, while from -led from 



Rs. 14,74,562 in 1901-2 to Rs. 46,86,246 in 1904-5, a. **ed 



to Rs. 24,35,951 in 1905-6 and to Rs. 13,04,494 in 1906-T. The shawl 

 traffic is almost entirvlv with Calcutta, and is very largely the expression 

 of the demand made by the coolies employed in the tea industry for 

 shawls and blankets, so that Germany has not only driven the Indian 

 mills, but the British as well, out of this particular market. 



The imports of woollen carpets and rugs into India have for some 

 years past manifested a continuous expansion. In 1896-7 these were 

 valued at Rs. 4,67,836, and during the past six years the traffic has 

 been as follows : 1901-2, Rs. 8,49,168; 1902-3, Rs. 5,76,304 ; 1903-4, 

 Rs. 8,96,738; 1904-5, Rs. 13,98,640; 1905-6, Rs. 14,47,131 ; and in 1906-7, 

 Rs. 10,56,679. During the last-mentioned year carpets and rugs to the 

 value of Rs. 7,30,496 came from the United Kingdom, Rs. 2,04,540 from 

 France, and Rs. 72,219 from Germany. It is only necessary to add (in 

 view of the activity of the Indian woollen mills) that the imports of 

 hosiery came in 1906-7 to Rs. 8,05,614, of which Rs. 6,97,490 worth 

 came from the United Kingdom, two-thirds being taken by Bengal and 

 Bombay and the remaining third by Burma, Sind and Madras. 



Exports. The total value of the exports of woollen goods came, Exports, 

 on the average of the returns for the five years ending 1906-7, to a 

 valuation of Rs. 23,78,835, but the figures as they stand would seem to 

 indicate a shrinkage, the year 1905-6 showing the lowest valuation of 

 the series. But taking 1906-7, the total exports came to Rs. 22,92,838, 

 of which Rs. 16,04,573 represented the portion taken by the United 

 Kingdom, and this is followed by the United States with" Rs. 4,03,973 ; 

 hina with Rs. 33,390 ; and Germany with Rs. 31,699. Thus while 

 Germany supplies India with a yearly increasing quantity of inferior 

 woollen goods, she takes in return practically none of India's manufactures 

 of wool. But it may be added that the exports from India to the United 

 Kingdom, the United States and Germany just mentioned, are almost 

 entirely Oriental carpets and rugs. The exports in shawls are made 

 mainly to the Straits Settlements, and the exports in piece-goods (possibly 

 for the most part Native-made pashmina) go to the United Kingdom, 

 Oeylon, Hongkong, the United States, China and Japan. 



WRIGHTIA, /**-. ; FL Br. Ind., iii., 652-4 ; Gamble Man. Ind. DAP., 



Timbs., 1902, 486-7 ; Cooke, FL Pres. Bomb., ii.. pt. i., 136-8 ; Brandis, J|-Pj- lv 

 Ind. Trees, 1906, 461-2; APOCYNACBA. A genus of shrubs or small * 

 trees of which about six species are found in India, the following being 

 those of economic importance : 



W. tinctorla, ft. Br. .- \ndarjau, hyamaraka, khirni, JuJhi. kdlakado. pdla. 

 veypatt, Udlapdl, amkudu, kodmurki, etc. A small deciduous tree of " th 



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