INDIA’S ADVANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 9

INDIA’S ADVANCE

BIG STRIDES MADE EDUCATION AND LABOUR (British Official Wireless.') RUGBY, Friday. rd Winterton, Under-Secretary tor India, speaking on the India Office vote in the House of Commons to-day, said many people did not realise the extent to which local government in India was in the hands of the Indians themselves. Without official control, this right to manage their own affairs had greatly increased in the last five years. Economic conditions had improved. Primary education was making great strides, and in the Punjab the number of pupils in the schools had increased in four years by nearly 400,000 to a total enrolment of over 900,000. The programme of new railway constructon covered 5,000 miles. Last year £7.000,000 worth of railway stores were bought in Britain in open competition with several Continental countries. There had been considerable improvement in the conditions of labour, and India was one of the few countries that had ratified the Washington Eight Hours’ Convention.—A. and N.Z.