INDIA CONSTITUTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20989, 28 September 1931, Page 7

INDIA CONSTITUTION.

DISCUSSION OF STRUCTURE, SUB-COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. (Received September 27. 5.5 pjn.) British Wireless. RUGBY. Sept. 2S. The general discussion on the distribution of the financial resources under the proposed new Indian constitution was concluded by the Federal Structure Committee to-day. A sub-committee was set up, consisting of 12 members, who are to consider and report upon the general principles oa w'hich the federal resources and obligations of India should be apportioned between the federation and the British Indian units jointly and severally and the State units. The chairman is Earl Peel. Meetings of the full committee will be suspended next week while the sub-com-mittee is sitting, and during the interval Lord Sankey will prepare a draft report on the work already done. The important communal question will again come to the front next week, for on Monday the Minorities Committee will resume its work. HOPE FOR LANCASHIRE. £; STATEMENT BY MR. GANDHI. _____ e: VISIT TO COTTON MILLS. (Received September 27, 5.5 pjn.) British Wireless. RUGBY, Sept. 26. Mr. Gandhi left London last evening for two days to visit Lancashire, where he arrived to-day. He is staying at Springvale garden village, near Darwen. His engagements include an interview with a number of cotton operatives, many of whom are unemployed, owing to the state of the Indian trade..

Mr. Gandhi's visit is a private one, but the hope is expressed that a.s a result of the exchanges of views on the distress caused by the boycott of foreign cloth in India a better atmosphere may be created for any ofacial discussions that may take place later Vritli the Indian delegates to the Round Table Conference on the relations between India and the Lancashire cotton industry. Mr. Gandhi v.as assured of the courteous reception dae to a guest of Hia Majesty's Government, and the spirit of inquiry that has prompted his visit is appreciated in Lancashire.

Mr. Gandhi informed Lancashire cotton employers and operatives that ha could not abandon the home-spinning movement in India, but if proper relations between India and Britain wei'B reached India would import a quantity of British cloth, although nol, so much as previously.