NATIVE GOVERNOR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 95, 5 April 1934, Page 5

NATIVE GOVERNOR

Appointment for Madras The mutual trust that is growing up between Indian and European public servants in high places in India is illustrated in the selection of a Muhammadan to act as Governor of Madras. The Indian who takes charge of a province with 50,000,000 inhabitants is Khan Kahadur Sir Muhammad Usman, hitherto vice-president of the executive council in that area. Sir Muhammad relieves the permanent Governor of Madras, Sir George Stanley, an ex-member of the British Government, who is to represent the King at Delhi, the headquarters of the whole of India, during the four months’ leave which the present Viceroy, Lord Willingdon. is taking in England. Sir Muhammad, in his new capacity, will have under his direction manv European as well as Indian officials. His case is by no means the first in which an Indian has successfully undertaken such responsibilities. The late Lord Sinha, a Hindu of Bengal, was Governor of the important province of Behar and Orissa in 192(1 and 1921. Similarly, Sirdar Sikandor Hyat Khan acted as head of the Punjab Government for a short time in 1932, and Sir Muhammad Ahmed Said Khan of Chliitari of that of the United Provinces in 1933. Such appointments mean the bringing together of renresontatives of the Indian and European communities in a relationship of mutual confidence of a particularly happy nature.