BRITISH PARLIAMENT
(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.)
IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, June 17. In tbe Commons, Hon Ainerv, in reply to a question said lie was aware of a heavy fall in the price of rubber. •The Government did not contemplate the abolition of a restriction scheme. Air Lnnsbury moved to reduce the India Office vote for extensions of Indian reforms. ,He protested against the detention of Indians in prisons without trial, and said Labourites were often accused of .Icing unpatriotic, merely beenuso they wanted to give Indians the opportunity of saying whether they wished to belong to the
Commonwealth of British nations. He —1 relieved it was possible to do with India what had been done with South Africa, and Australia. Mr Winterton, in reply, said Mr Lnnsbury exaggerated the restriction of Indian Legislature. The Viceroy’s veto was very rarely used. The constitutional machine was working more smoothily than last year. Government was collecting information in relation to its working and the possibilities for improvement, for a commission which must he established in 1929. The .reduction motion was defeated bv 173 to 45.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1927, Page 3
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