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Rh weights and measures used throughout Dominions, and the manufacture of weights and measures for use by the public.

This Department, which is still in its infancy, owes its inception to Mr. R. Loraine Gamlen, the energetic Mint Master. He found that the power of the engines provided by Sir George Casson Walker for the purposes of minting was in excess of the requirements, and he obtained from His Highness's government sanction to start an electric supply for the neighbourhood, using the surplus power available in the Mint for driving the electric machinery. First, the King Koti Palace and the Residency were lighted by electricity; and then, when the Viceroy visited Hyderabad in September 1913, the Falaknama Palace, the Bund and the City were lighted in the same way. More machinery has been bought, and, at the present time, the Mint Master is in England, perfecting the arrangements of the Electricity Department.