IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1932, Page 5

IN INDIA

FRANCHISE AND FRANCE.

INQUIRY BY COMMITTEES

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, Jan. 13,

The personnel of the three committees .shortly to commence work in India in the continuation of the discussions of the Round Table Conference is ai.m.uneed.

The Marquis of Lothian is Chairman of the Franchise Committee, comprising seven other English members and seven represenatives of Indians, most of whom were members of the recent Round Table Conference. r ihe Federal Finance Com it boo is of six members, under the chairmanship of Lord Eustace Percy. The Chairman of the Native Stated Inquiry Committee Of seven members is Mr •). C. C. Davidson, M.P. It is explained that the States Inquiry Committee, in the course of a tour of the principal centres in the Indian Native States, will adopt the procedure of meeting representatives of the States, in eoniereuce, with a view to a common discussion on the question, involved before drafting a report. The Prime Minister lias nominated seven Native States delegates and thirteen British delegates of the Round Table Conference to be members of a Consultative Committee, under the Chairmanship of the Governor-General ng Deputy lor himself, It is the Govurtitlient’s intention that the Confererice should succeed through this working Corpittee, with which, through the Indian Government,His Majesty’s Government would keep in effective touch. Jt is the intention of the Government that this Working Committee of the Conference be brought into effective consultation, on the recommendations of the three committees, above, before conclusions of their recommendations are adopted by the Government. Besides this, it will' participate in much constructive work winch can be undertaken independently.

The terms of reference of the three committees, which sail from Marseilles on Friday, are set out in letters to the Chairmen. In one letter the Prime Minister States :“To your committee, the Government will look for complete detailed proposals on which to base revision of franchise and the arrangement of the constituencies foe the new legislatures, central and provincial, which are to form part of the constitution. and the Government hopes the Committee will be in a position to as to ..frame their proposals us to the present detailed scheme for the .forming of each of the provincial legislatures, and of the Federal 1 Legislature, on the principle that a responsible Federal Government, subject to certain safeguards, is accepted by the Government.”