§ 39. Mr. SNELLasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the questionnaire which has been circulated amongst European Government officials in India, in which they are asked to indicate before the sitting of the Statutory Commission whether they have any intention of resigning their services and retiring on proportionate pensions, it is the intention of the Government to appoint the Statutory Commission in time to sit during the next cold weather?
§ Earl WINTERTONI know nothing of any such questionnaire; I am not in a position to make any statement about the Commission in extension of what I have said in reply to previous questions and in my speeches on the Whitsuntide Adjournment on the 2nd June and in Committee of Supply on the 17th June.
§ 42. Mr. JOHNSTONasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he has received any representation on the subject of the Statutory Commission on Indian Constitutional Reforms from a body called the Indian Farmers' and Peasants' Federation, Ahmadabad; and, if so, whether he will give the terms of the representation?
§ Earl WINTERTONYes, Sir. The representation urged including in the personnel of the Commission a person with intimate knowledge of the needs of agricultralists, and instructing the Commission to secure a scheme of Government 1430 which should be not merely responsible, but also should conserve the needs and interests and the educational, economic, social and political well-being of the Indian peoples.