INDIAN REFORM.
VOICE OF COMMERCE
PROVINCIAL AUTONOMY,
(Australian Press Association.) DELHI, Aug. 12.
The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India and Burma, representing nearly a thousand millions sterling of capital, have sent a memorandum to the Simon Commission advocating full autonomy for the Indian Provinces, provided that: — (1) The Central Government of India is strengthened as against an all-India legislative Assembly. (2) Tho Central Government is given powers of intervention in tho event of a breakdown of the constitution of the Provinces. (3) Second chambers bo increased in the Provinces. (4) Adequite safeguards are furnished for administration by the police. (5) A clause is inserted in tho new Government of India Act forbidding commercial discrimination in any form.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 219, 14 August 1928, Page 7
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