wages in order to attract labour which was scarce, employing large staff to store the larger quantity of salt manufactured, and the construction of two new heaps entirely by manual labour. The average storage per day constituted a record, amounting to 85,000 maunds. The quantity of salt written off as lost and wasted when the closed stores were emptied amounted to 16,552 maunds. The special measures for improving the conditions of the Agarias made good progress during the year under report. It is unfortunate that the attempt to form a co-operative society among them failed, but in their present condition of illiteracy and mutual distrust this result appears to have been inevitable. It has been decided to start a co-operative society among the Government servants at Kharaghoda during the monsoon of 1923 to serve as an example to the Agarias of the advantages of co-operation. More than two-thirds of the sea salt sold was removed to places beyond the Presidency. Foreign competition was responsible for a dimunition in the removal of refined magnesium chloride, but there was a considerable increase in the production of refined salt, the quality of which appears to be quite equal to imported refined salt. The enhanced duty did not come into force until March 1st, 1923, and its effect during the year under review was negligible as traders anticipating the increase had removed large quantities of salt in January and February. The per capita consumption of Salt in the Presidency in 192223 was 14 28 lbs. in Gujarat and 13°47 in Konkan, Deccan and Southern Mahratta country. These figures are not the figures of actual consumption per head of the population as there is no means of knowing the amount sold by retailers in any one particular year. The figure is arrived at by dividing the total quantity of salt issued and imported, less that sent outside the Presidency or used for industrial or Agricultural purposes, by the population as given at the last Census. The Salt issued in any one year is not necessarily sold to the consumer in that year. SIND Nearly 265,000 maunds of salt were manufactured in Sind during the year, 242,000 being produced at the Maurypur Salt Works situate on the coast, 7 miles to the west of Karachi. The salt there is obtained from sub-soil brine collected in pits sunk on the foreshore. At Darwari in Thar Parkar District there is a deposit of practically pure salt but there was no excavation of this deposit during the year as the stocks in hand were sufficient to meet the year's demand. Salt produced here is the best in Sind and is probably not surpassed anywhere in India. Salt of little inferior quality to the Darwari salt is obtained from the deposit in Diplo, one of the Desert talukas of the Thar Parkar District, but owing to its remoteness this deposit serves only the immediate vicinity, that is villages within a radius of about 80 miles. The salt depots at Karachi and Sukkur were closed at the beginning of 1923 and salt was issued to the public direct from the Maurypur Salt Works through the agency of transport contractors who used motor lorries. The issues of salt during the year amounted to over 405,000 maunds, an increase of 4,700 maunds which can be attributed to the rush of indents for salt made in the months of January and February in anticipation of the enhancement of duty. The actual consumption including Punjab salt which is consumed chiefly in the Sukkur and Upper Sind Frontier Districts amounted to over 438,000 maunds which works out at 11 lbs. per capita, but the same considerations with regard to the accuracy of this figure apply as in the case of the Presidency, to which reference is made above. The net revenue amounted to nearly 33 lakhs. ADEN Receipts rose from Rs. 58,146 to Rs. 86,200 and expenditure from Rs. 2,630 to Rs. 2,674. The net revenue increased from Rs. 55,516 to Rs. 83,526. The total quantity removed from Arab Salt pans increased from 67,200 to 70,178 maunds. The quantity exported from Lalji's Salt Works rose from 53,997 to |