INDIAN CONSTITUTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 7, 6 December 1932, Page 7

INDIAN CONSTITUTION.

ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE. POWERS OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Dec. 4. The discussion extending over four days at the Indian Round Table Conference on the special powers and responsibilities of the Governor-General and Governors under the Federal Constitution ended with a statement of the Government’s views made by the Secretary for India. Sir Samuel Hoare. Ho gave an assurance that the special responsibilities of the GovernorGeneral would be strictly limited and would be carried out in a commonsense way. The actual field would include finance, commercial discrimination, minorities and the protection of services. Paramountcy stood outside the Federal Constitution, as it was a matter of direct relations between the Grown and the Princes. In the Federal field recourse would be had to Federal Courts.

Regarding the Governor-General’s power to safeguard Imperial relations, he said that tile- Government was prepared to look into the matter again in view of the apprehension expressed. In the sphere of reserved departments, although external relations would include political relations with outside countries, commercial, economic and other non-political relations would fall within the transferred or Ministerial sphere. Defence would be discussed later. The statement was well received.