INDIAN CONSTITUTION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 8

INDIAN CONSTITUTION

REVISION COMMITTEE.

CONSULTATIVE INVITATIONS

British Official Wireless Service.

Rugby, March 7

In the House of Commons. Mr Winston Churchill asked the Secretary for India whether the Committee of Indians was being invited by the Government to participate in a consultative capacity or otherwise in the work of the joint committee of both Houses shortly to be set up, and whether ho could assure the House that he would in no way prejudice, by the form of his invitations, the decision of either the House or Parliament upon the method of consultation or the status of auch Indian nominees in relation to thu joint committee.

Sir Samuel Hoare replied: "Ever since the Simon Commission was first

appointed, successive Governments have had the intention of proposing that the joint select committee set up to consider proposals for the revision of the Indian constitution be given power to confer with the Indian representatives The Government, therefore, propose to ask Parliament to give the committee

this power. However, it will be for

the committee alone to decide upon the manner in which effect is given to this arrangement. The second part of the

question therefore does not arise.”