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articles of food and consumption.
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station, and that it does not provide facilities for a water-power user to
effectuate the regulation of a lake or the damming up of water, supposing
damage thereby to be caused to a building, waterfall, or the like,
belonging to another, no matter how great the public benefit aecuring from the
enterprise. On the other hand, by the Electric Installations Act of June
27, 1902, the water power industry has been tolerably well provided for,
with reference to the right to carry over another ground the electric power
lines often imperatively necessary for modern power works.
A revision of the Water Act was set on foot in 1906, when the
Government appointed a committee to draft proposals for new legislation
with regard to a landowner’s rights over the water in his ground. That
committee, jointly with another committee of same year appointed to draw
up proposals for amendments in the law relating to the drainage of ground,
brought forward on the December 17, 1910, a scheme for an amended
Water Act. This extensive scheme, which contains many new and
remarkable suggestions, is at present being considered by the authorities.
Furthermore, of låte a scheme for a new floating law, as well as a new bill
providing for greater security with regard to agreements for delivery of electrical
energy, etc., have been worked out. It is to be hoped that the Riksdag
will soon see its way to decide this very important question, and that the
new law will be framed in such a spirit that it will not impede, but
facilitate and encourage the speedy and scientific exploitation of Sweden’s
water power.
The formal stumbling-blocks once removed, there is no doubt whatever
that the people of Sweden will contrive, within a not too far distant future,
to turn to account the national wealth which lies in her magnificent
supplies of water-power, and which, utilized in the right way, should give her
an extremeley favourable position in the competition going on between
the nations.
1. ARTICLES OF FOOD AND CONSUMPTION.
This large group, which embraces about I/4 of the industrial products
of Sweden reckoned according to value, may be subdivided — in accordance
with the nature of the raw materials employed, or with that of the
products in question — as given below, the figures being for the year 1912:
Factories Hands Value of production
Products from Grain and Root crops .... 1 744 7 769 155 042 000 kronor
Dairy produce (Figures for 1910)....., 1 416 4 155 95 454 000 >
Other Food-stuffs from the animal kingdom . 118 1911 49 204 000 >
Sugar, Chocolate, Tobacco, etc..............292 16 007 165 094 000 »
Drinkables, etc. . ......... . . . 1186_8 019 106 802 000 »
Total 4 756 37 861 571596 000 kronor
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