The Burma Gazette Rangoon Saturday October 16th 1920

1757.—In exercise of the power conferred by section 17 of the Indian Arms Act 0378 (XI of 1878) the Governor-General in Council is pleased to direct that the following amendment shall be made in the Indian Arms Rules 1920 as subsequently amended namely :- In sub-rule (t) of rule 2 of the said rules after the words “in the case of Aden the Assistant Political Resident” the words “ in the case [...] Article 9.—The Minister of Foreign Affairs the Minister of Finance the Minister of Commerce and Industry the Minister of Agriculture the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts are charged with the execution of the present Decree in so far as each is concerned therewith. [...] The Government of India are aware that the dentind for highly trained geologists in India though small is steadily increasing with the growing sense on the part of the educated classes of the opportunities available to them ot taking a share in the utilisation of the raw materials of the country. [...] The Secretary of State has recently approved of the view enunciated by the Government of India that the true solution (ot the problem of the recruitment of Indians to the Geological Survey of India) is in the early creation of means of instruction such as will enable Indians to attain the necessary qualifications in India. [...] The Government of India consider that the proposed School of Mines although spoken of as a school " on the analogy of the terminology long ago adopted and perpetuated in the Royal School of Mines London should really be an institution of collegiate rank in which the highest form of teaching in the art of mining and its accessory sciences should be undertaken.