CONSTITUTION FRAMEWORK

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1930, Page 9

CONSTITUTION FRAMEWORK

?<. z . INDIA CONFERENCE COMMITTED. (British Wireless). Rec. 5.5 p.m. • Rugby, Dec. 2. Sub-committee No. 1 of the Indian Round Table Conference, to which has been committed the consideration of questions on federal structure, 1 and over which Lord Sankey presides, began today its work in the preparation of the framework of a federal constitution. It ■\vill meet daily this Week and in the early stages will' be' engaged in clearing the ground and beginning more precisely the tasks 'before it, although it should not be long before, positive proposals begin to take' shape. ’ - The business committee met this afternoon and 'constituted two more subcommittees, for which the ’ delegations had submitted lists of names. The Provisional .Constitution Sub-committee, of which the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, will be chairman, •will have 28 members,'including three from the Indian States delegation, who wilt have a watching brief. The committee which is to consider conditions enabling Burma to be separated from India has 14 members, but tile chairman has not yet been chosen. ' /