CASE OF INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, 10 June 1931, Page 5

CASE OF INDIA.

QUESTIONS IN COMMOJtS. BOYCOTTED CLOTH. RUGBY, Juno 8. The Secretary for Indian, Mr. Wedgwood Benn, replying to a number of questions, said that it was intended that the personnel of the proposed Federal Structure Committee should be as before, with certain additions which he was not yet in a position to announce. No formal invitations had yet. * been issued. They would be issued through tho Viceroy and dealt with as before. The depressed classes were represented on the Conference, and their representation on the Federal Structure Committee was being considered.

Asked whether tho delay in re-as-sembling the Round Table‘Conference in London was to be utilised to attempt further progress in India with outstanding questions concerning the future of the Provisional Governments, Mr. Benn said that he was unaware of any funda™ental outstanding question affecting alt the Provinces requiring discussion, except problems such as communal difficulties and relations between the Centre and the Provinces, which wore essentially involved in the Federal as well as in the Provincial Constitutions. Questioned regarding the constitution and operations of the Agency Company registered in Indian for the purpose of buying and exporting stocks of boycotted cloth, Mr Benn said that the company was a public company. No shares had been offered for public subscription. The company had not yet acquired any stocks for reexportation. A list of directors was circulated to the members of Parliament.—(BritishOfficial Wireless.)