BURMA'S CONSTITUTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21539, 11 January 1932, Page 7

BURMA'S CONSTITUTION

CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE GRATITUDE TO KING EXPRESSED. I British Official 'Wireless.) RUGBY, January 8. (Received Jan. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) Except for the statement of the Government policy which the Prime Minister will make on Tuesday the Burma Round Table Conference concluded its work with the plenary session to-day. A resolution was unanimously adopted expressing gratitude to the King, and stating: “At the conclusion of the conference which was summoned to consider the lines of a constitution for Burma separated from India the delegates wish to assure your Majesty, if such assurances are required, that they and the people of Burma yield to none in their unfaltering loyalty to your Majesty and your Majesty’s throne.” The resolution to adopt the report expressed the hope that as it recorded the opinions of all the parties represented and registered a substantial measure of agreement it would serve the purpose for which the conference was called. Concluding the general discussion the chairman (Lord Peel), to whose services many appreciative references were made by delegates, expressed the view that perhaps some of the delegates had concentrated their attention too much on the safeguards and control reserved for the Governor, and had not sufficiently realised the enormous transfer of the actual control of business which, under the constitution foreshadowed, must come to the Burmese Government and people. The great range of provincial and central subjects involved a tremendous weight of fresh responsibility upon Burma’s legislature and executive, in comparison with which the so-called control and safeguards shrank into less importance.