INDIAN AFFAIRS
ELECTORAL QUESTION
(British Official Wireless )
RUGBY, November 23
Franchise questions were further considered at the Indian Hound Table Conference in regard to the depressed electorate for the Federal Assembly.' The Coufernce agreed to accept a recommendation that a differential qualification of mere literacy be adfcotrd. With the ordinary electorate of the Assembly, this would enfranchise at least two per cent, of the depressed class population. Subject to a satisfactory solution of the question of small minorities, it was agreed that the British-Indian section of the* Federal Upper House he elected by the Provincial Legislative Council by the single transferable vote.
INFORMERS ATTACKED. CALCUTTA, November 23.
The latest phase .of terrorism is attacks on the individuals who are suspected of informing the police of tlie movements of' revolutionaries. Four cases have occurred in a few days in Bengal, and in Biliar a-nd Orissa, the victims being shot on lonely roads, tjvo of them fatally.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1932, Page 6
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155INDIAN AFFAIRS Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1932, Page 6
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