INDIAN AFFAIRS.
THE SALT MONOPOLY. A GOVERNMENT CONCESSION. [United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9.50 a.m.) DELHI, March 3. Following a two hour talk between Schuster (Finance Member) and Gandhi, at New Delhi, an important agreement was reached whereby cdsfstal inhabitants will in future lie permitted to gather, manufacture and sell salt without infringing the excise laws. The acknowledgment of this principle is not likely to interfere with the Government salt monopoly, under which Government supplies salt to the major portion of India. The agreement overcomes another serious obstacle, and clears the path for a settlement, rendering possible Congress participation in implementing the Round Table Conference proposals. RULES NOT YET DISCLOSED RUGBY, March 2. Mr Wedgwood Bonn, questioned in the House of Commons regarding the result of tile discussions between one Viceroy and Gandhi, replied that as the conversations are' still proceeding, he was unable to make a statement. In reply to another question, he said that he was still unable to malfe a statement on the Government's plans for carrying on the work of the Round Table Conference. Asked if it were intended that the proposals discussed at the Round Table Conference, not requiring an amendment of the Government of India Act should he proceeded with, Mr Wedgwood Benn said that the Government of India had announced that a committee would he set up eai'lv.
I He added that there might be .other | administrative action which could be taken, and sympathetic consideration | would be given to such possibility, but j he would take every means of informI ing the House of Commons of anyj tiling it was intended to do. « INDIAN WORKERS DISMISSED. CALCUTTA, March 2. tjt is now revealed that seventyfour thousand jute mill labourers have j hoeii dismissed from the mills in the I vicinity of Calcutta during the past I weekThe Indian Railways are also dismissing hands, on account of the civil disobedience campaign and stagnation of trade. I
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1931, Page 6
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