The Viceroy--Lord Reading--on Cotton Trade Prospects

It gives me the greatestt pleasure to take part in this inaugural ceremony today for several reasons. In the First Place I am enabled to express my high appreciation of the value of technological and other forms of research connected with which this ceremoney is primarily concerned and in addition , there is the wider subject of the activities of the Central Indian Cotton Committee and the generl question of the cotton industry in India as a whole, in which I take the warmest interest and to some aspects of which I desire to draw the attention.