INDIA GOVERNMENT
QUALIFICATION FOR VOTING. HOUSE OF LORDS AMENDMENTS. By Telegraph—Pres? Assn,—Copyright. London, July 10. The House of Lords to-day accepted amendments to the Government of India Bill to make the election of the Council of State direct instead of indirect. Yiscount Zetland, Secretary for India, said that the election would he op high property qualification and it would be necessary to lay down the proportions of the council to be al’otted different communities. The Sikhs had been allotted four seats and the Moslems 49. The Government had in mind an electorate four, or five times greater than that at present allotted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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