INDIAN REFORM.
LORD ISLINGTON'S SCHEME.
B}- Telegraph—PrA'n Association Copyright LONDON. August 0.
Lord Islington, Under-Secretary for India, speaking unofficially ajt. o\fnrd, outlined a. scheme for Indian reform on bold linos, with decentralisation aiming at, the federation of self-governing States, with a. central authority eontrolling national matters resembling tlv Australian Commonwealth, lie proposed the creation of selected loral bodies, with taxing powers, for controlling local matters and also the handing orer to the provincial governments matters such as police, agriculture and public works and industry, each province working out, its own redemptionHe sr.ccrestod that such a- government should consist of a governor, with two European and two Indian executive councillors, the latter properly reprc sputativp of the various classes of Indian society.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12082, 10 August 1917, Page 4
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