INDIA CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20931, 22 July 1931, Page 9

INDIA CONFERENCE.

FEDERAL STRUCTURE. NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS. Brilish Wireless RUGBY, July 20. The India Office has issued the names of those invited to serve on the Federal Structure Committee of the Round Table Conference, which is to resume its sessions in London in September. The original 21 members, apart from Sir Ramnswami Aiyar, now acting law member of the Viceroy's Council, have been renominated. The new British members are the Financial Secretary' to the British Treasury, Mr. F. W. PethickLawrence, who with the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankev, and the President, of the Board of Education, Mr. H. B. LeesSmith, will represent the Government, and Lord Hailsham the Conservatives.^ Chief interest, however, attaches to the new Indian nominees who did not take part in last year's proceedings. Among them is Mr, Gandhi, who has been vited to represent the Indian National Congress. Other new-comers from India are Sir P. Thakurdas, of Bombay, and Sir Maneckji Dadabhoy, of Nagpur, prominent business men, Mr. Iyengar, editor of the Hindu, formerly secretary to the congress, and Pandit Madan Malaviya, the oldest living politician in India, and a prominent Hindu leader. The committee will begin its work as soon after September 5 as possible. The Minorities Committee, which is in special charge of the communal problem, is expected to meet early in October. The membership of this committee will also be increased.

Sir 'P." Thakurdas is a cotton merchant. He is president of the Imperial Bank of India, the Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Company, Limited, and amember of the Bombay Port Trust. Sir M. B. Dadabhov is a barrister of the Middle Temple. He is a member of the Viceroy's Council of State for the Central Provinces. He has been on numerous Royal Commissions, and is managing director of various large electric light, cotton, mining and other companies.