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 types o! fuel demand, and an improvement in & small point o! detail might mean in the aggregate & ire- mendons saving to the country.  And lastly, the public attention should be drawn to the urgency and the gravity of the question, and it should form the special study of experts. And, it is because I feel that this should have been done long ago, and that even now it is late enough, that I have ventured to submit these observations to this Con- ference, in the hope tha the question could not have a more auspicious. start than in the deliberations o! a body o! Economists. ANNEXUBE ! NOTE ON FUEL WORKING CHARGES FROM RESERVES OF SOUTH INDIA THE FOREST In this note an attempt is made to show the different elements in the cost price of firewood derived reserved forests in the Presidency of Hras in Travancore, and their relative position towards from and one another. The first item in the cost is seigniora.qe. The seigniorage rates in the Madras Presidency vary from district to district, being tkree annas for in Cansrs, five annas annas in the NilEiris. six annas. twelve annas a cartload in Malabar, and twen.four The rate in most districts is the raes are eight and for local consumption and submitted to the Eoonomio Genrerenee, I have seen mstruotive and valuable oourse of lectures on **Fuel In Travancore a cartload, I 8inoe this paper the reprint of an Boonemy in Geeking Mssion of 1918, by Mr. A. H. Barker. The work refers to the domestic oon- ditions of EEqll&nd, but it should prove very. s. uggestive to any one undertak- ing similar enquiry in regaad to the oon&tions of cookIn8 and fuel oon- sumpriori in IndiA. M'. Barkex pays little attention to the patterns of the oooking vessels used. The rules of oaste wiil give this aspect of the sub- jeot speoil importoe in Indis. Appmtus," delivered st the Universi, of London, in the