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 FILLASE ECONOMICS 4"/1 repeated in the case o! Indapur Taluka and did not meet with the approval ot Government; and 'in their Resolution, dated 2nd November, 1911, they remarked: "Government cannot, however, accept Mr. Brandor's conclusion that the recent high level o! prices is simply due to crop failure, local or general, nor the assertion that the cultivators have lost rather than benefited by the high prices. The causes and the nature o! the rise in prices are problems of an infinitely intricate character, but it is certain that on agricultural produce enrich the whole high and do not prices o! impoverish the cultivator." (Selections from Government Records, XVI.--New series.) Here (vernment was lqO. D clearly dieted arguing in by the facts An interesting point cited W8 Poona in forwarding the above enhancement o! the rate of of a theory flatly contra- by the settlement officer,, raised by the Collector of report and related to certain villages from Be. 1 to Rs. 1-9, proposed on the sole ground that they were near a railway station and got much carting to do. The Collector contended that it was doubtful whether proximity to a railway station and the conse- quent demand for labor, in itself could be considered a good ground for enhancing agricultural assessment. The demand tot labor would, enhance wages and and their proximity to doted by the agriculturists the villages generally having diminish on t. ho other hand, agricultural profits, the railway would as an unmixed little to export. be conre- blessing, To take another point. Mr. Brandor had proposed that certain revenue rates should be guaranteed to the rayors only for a short period so that Government might not lose the advantage of higher obtained a few years later. On this, rates to be the Gem- missionor, C. D. remarked:-" Mr. Brandor is in favor of a short guarantee, but Government is not a more