The Burma Gazette Rangoon Saturday March 5th 1921

The patent granted on any reciprocity application shall be entered in the register of patents as dated of the official date of the first British application but the date of the reciprocity application shall also be entered in the register." 5. In the First Schedule to the said rules after entries Nos. [...] This was supplemented by the following resolution passed by the Washington Conference :— That the Indian Government be requested to make a study of the question of the employment of women before and after confinement and of maternity benefits before the next Conference and to report on these matters to the next Conference." We are making the necessary inquiries and hope to he in a position to [...] The question of the definition of a "factory" to be adopted is of importance in connection not merely with this convention but also in vit w of its direct bearing upon the question of the ratification of the draft covention fixing the minimum age for admission of children to industrial employment. [...] And while our Famine Codes contemplate the free use of public works to relieve the initial phases of distress we think it impracticable in view of the large size of the country and of the comparative immobility of much of our unskilled labour to make further advances in the direction of the fourth section of this recommendation. [...] Thus we propose to extend to non-texttle factorie* the limitation of the daily hours of work for male adults to 12 hours ; (b) the limitation of the daily hours of children to t:: ; and we propose to remove the present limitations of the hours between which a person may be employed and within which the machinery may be used.