CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 7

CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

CONFERENCE DISCUSSIONS

WORK OF SUB-COMMITTEES

SYSTEMS OF LEGISLATURE

HINDU-MOSLEM RELATIONS

British Wireless. Rugby, Dec. 1. The sub-committees of the India conference appointed to consider the first and second heads of subjects met this morning/ It is understood that for the present the informal discussion for the adjustment of Hindu and Moslem views and relations, which has been proceeding for the past three weeks, has been discontinued. The conversations resulted in little real progress in the matter of communal representations. In informing the Hindu negotiators that they had proposed a discontinuance of the discussion on the question of separate electorates, the Moslem delegates expressed .their willingness to discuss other outstanding questions. The committee continued the examination of the heads of subjects under four heads, namely, the component elements of federation, the type of federal legislature, and the number of chambers constituting it, the powers of the federal its construction and character. The powers and responsibilities of the federal executive were referred to a federal structure sub-committee. The powers pf the provincial legislatures and the constitution, character, powers and responsibilities of the provincial executives were referred to a second committee.

A third sub-committee was given the task* of considering the, provision to be made to secure the willing co-operation of the minorities and special interests. The headings dealing with the membership of the federal legislature and the method whereby representatives from British India and the Indian States were to be chosen were held over, since the action of these matters was a measure dependent on the work done on questions before the federal structure sub-committee.

Questions relating to the defence forces, Supreme Court and its jurisdiction, and the relations of the federal and provincial executives to the Crown' were also left over until the sub-committee had reported on thesis specific subjects.