INDIAN CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1931, Page 5

INDIAN CONFERENCE

RE-ASSEMBLY IN LONDON [OFFICIAL WIBELESS.] RUGBY, August 5. The Indian Round Table Conference 'Federal Structure Committee will resume kitting at Saint James’ Palace soon after September 5, which is the date fixed for the assembling of the delegates in London. Members of the minorities sub-com-mittee have been asked to be in London by September 26, with a view to resuming business within ten days thereafter. The date of the meeting of the full conference has not yet been fixed, but delegates, who are not members of the Federal Structure and Minorities Committees, are asked to reach London by the end of October. »

A complete list of the delegates invited to the conference has been issued. It comprises 19 Indian States delegation, 70 British India delegation, and 19 British delegation. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a message to the diocese, makes intercession for a spirit of mutual understanding among the delegates of the conference. He adds that the work before the conference represents the greatest and most difficult task ever put before the Empire in the long course of its history. It will demand the exercise of patient and constructive statesmanship. ‘ His Lordship adds: Nothing hut a spirit of mutual sympathy, understanding and goodwill among the delegates can find a way through the difficulties.