Indian Jute Mills Association Report of the Committee for the Year Ended 31st December 1941

It will be remembered that in the first months of the year the condition of the Industry could hardly be described as flourishing and it is therefore all the more gratifying to know that our puchases of jute fell short of the desired quantity by only 31 lakhs of bales. [...] In addition to this mill workers and staff employees have contributed handsomely during the year to the various funds and in particular I should like to mention the excellent effort as the result of the Chief Minister's appeal on the anniversary of the War. [...] Technological Research— "The principal work of the Technological Research Laboratories of that Committee hitherto has been on the scientific assesooseat of the quality of the commercial samples of the fibre and the yarn and on the determination of the relationship between the spinning quality of the. [...] In order to expedite the results of spinning trials conducted on commercial samples of fibre and yarn the equipment and other facilities in the Laboratories were increased and it is to be hoped that the industry and the trade will find the data on this subject compiled in the Laboratories of increasingly practical importance to them. [...] T. B. Nimmo and unanimously supported by the meeting the following resolution was passed :— That the following gentlemen be and they are hereby appointed the Chairmen the Vice-Chairman and sesnimws of the Coomilloe of the Assosiation for the veer 1942— Chairman MR.