REPORT ON INDIA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 414, 24 December 1932, Page 5

REPORT ON INDIA

(British OfBcial WirolRSS)

AN IMPROVEMENT NECESSITY FOR EMERGENCY MEASURES DEPLORED BY MINISTER EVIDENCE OF GOODWILL

Rec. Dec. 23. Rugby, Dec. 23. The Secretary for India, Sir Samuel Hore, made a statement on India during the debate on the adjournment of the House of Commons. He said that as far as he could judge the situation in India was definitely better. The Ottawa agreements had been passed by the Indian Legislative Assembly by 77 votes to 25 — -very significant evidence of the goodwill between the Indian Legislature and the Imperial Parliament. As to emergency orders, he had always hated them and none wished to see them imposed unless it was absolutely necessary. He was glad to be able to announce that as far as he could see, by the beginning of the New Year there need .be no further emergency orders. Government's Attitude Unchanged Referring to the suggestion of the previous Opposition speaker that there had been a cliange in the Government's attitude toward the Indian Conference, Sir Samuel said that he could say quite categorically that there was no differenee at all. They were trying to get exactly the same results as before. A great measure of agreement had been reaehed, not only between the Governments in Britain and India, but also with the Indian delegation in London. The Government would do everything in its power to increase the ^orces of goodwill and would co-operate with them. With regard to lahour conditions revealed in the Whitley report, Sir Samuel Hoare said that the administration of labour questions was a transferred subject, and the India Office, therefore, had little or no eontrol, but his advisers and himself were fully alive to the need for great improvement, and all the influence they could exert would be in the direction of helping both the Central and Provincial Governments to do everything possible to raise the standard of labour conditions generally.