FEDERAL INDIA

Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 9

FEDERAL INDIA

FINDING A FR AMEWtOR K COMMITTEE- OX 'BURMA (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Bee. 2. Siib-'Cbmimit’tce Xo. 1. of itshe Incline round)-table conferr'ii'cc, to which 'has been, comimitted. the consideration of questions on the Federal structure, and over which; Lord Snnkey presides, began to-day its wo'rk in the; jneipaTation of a framework of the federal constitution. It 'will meet daily this week and, in the e'airly stages, will 1 be engaged in the clearing of ground and: beginning more precisely the tasks before it. It should not be long before positive proposals begin, to take shape. The business committee met this afternoon and constituted two more sub-eom'miftees for which the; delegations had) submitted lists of nainrels. The provisional constitution of a pub- commit tee of 'which xhe Foreign Secretary, Air Arthur Henderson, will be chairman, shows that it will have 28 members, including three from the Indian States delegation, who will have a watching brief. The .committee which is l to, consider the .conditions enabling Burma ‘to, be separated from India has 14 members, but a chairman is not yet ehe'sen.