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Show Dry Area in India. A concession of considerable importance impor-tance and potentiality has been granted grant-ed to Calcutta as an experimental measure by the excise authorities of the representation made by the Calcutta Cal-cutta Temperance federation, supported support-ed by local public opinion. It has now been decided that a certain area in this town should be made into a dry area. This area, which may be called the educational area, includes within it the Calcutta university, all the large colleges and schools, representing represent-ing about 10,000 young men, graduates and undergraduates, four important public squares, and a number of hospitals, hos-pitals, churches, mosques and temples tem-ples ; and the authorities have ruled that all grog-shops and drug shops shall be removed form this area for a year at present. |