RULE IN INDIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 13 June 1936, Page 9

RULE IN INDIA

POWERS FOR PROVINCES.

BRITAIN’S GOODWILL. REFERENCES IN COMMONS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received June 13, 11.0 a.in. RUGBY, June 12. The House of Commons to-day debated a number of draft Orders-in-Council under the Government of India Act; winch have the ciiect ot bringing into operation the whole of tiio -ret, except part z, relating to the Indian Federation. The Under-Secretary for India (Mr 11 A. Butler), moving approval of tho orders, said that il provincial autonomy was to be inaugurated on April 1 the time-table which the Governmenthad in mind was that the general elections should be held approximately eight months hence. the spokesmen of the Labour Opposition and the Liberal Party joined in wishing tlie scheme the fullest measure of success, and Sir Samuel Hoare, who as Secretary for India piloted the India Bill through the House of Commons, speaking for the first time as First Lord of the Admiralty, added his blessing. He said that a significant and satisfactory fact of the debate was that no one had suggested that the initiation of provincial autonomy should be delayed, although there had been criticism of some ot the financial proposals. As a result of the orders, the provinces, several of which were of greater magnitude than some European countries, would have an opportunity for the first time on an extended scale of developing their own provincial life. Mr Winston Churchill and Mr L. C. M. S. Amery, two of the principal critics of the Bill, also spoke. Mr Churchill said he and his friends would do nothing to obstruct the carrying out of the policy which Parliament had approved, and Mr Amery expressed the wish that there might go from the House a message of goodwill to the new provinces and to India as a whole.

BURMESE ADMINISTRATION.

SEPARATE SECRETARYSHIP.

(British Official Wireless.) Received June 13, 8.5 a.m. RUGBY, June 11. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decided that following the separation of Burma from India, there should he a separate Secretaryship of State for Burma, and also the new office of Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Burma. For reasons of practical convenience the Secretaryship and Under-Secretaryship for Burma would, for the present, he held by the same persons as the Secretaryship and Under-Secretaryship for India. The Burma Office would be housed in the India Office.