THE REPRESENTATION REPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 55, 4 July 1887, Page 5

THE REPRESENTATION REPORT.

How T&e Boundaries are Altered.

AUCKLAND EAST ABOLISHED

Ponsonby and Nowton Divided.

(BY TELECIRAriI.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Wellington, this day.

There have been many changes in tlio electoral boundaries in adjusting tho districts to the quota of population, resulting in a number of electorates in tho North Island being increased by three, and in the Middle Island decreased by tho same number, the number now being respectively thirty-nine and fifty-two, or in all ninety-ono for the colony. The decrease in Middle Island has been effected by making one electorate less in tho group of West Coast, Nelson, and Marl borough electorates, and two less in tho Canterbury and Otago groups. In the North Island two additional electorates have been given to Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke's Bay group of electoral districts and ono to Auckland group. The alterations and adjustments induced by these changes ha\ o necessarily so affected tho boundaries as to render somo of the old names of tho electorates no longer applicable or descriptive Tho following names liavo therefore been discarded :— Auckland East, Wellington South, Wairarapa South, Wairarapa North, Picton, Waimea, Stanmore, Coleridge, Wakanui, Geraldine, Moeraki, Waikouaiti. The new names are—Auckland Central, Ponsonby, Woodville, Masterton, Wairarapa, Wellington East, Wellington South and suburbs, Waimea, Picton, Lin wood, Rangitafca, Waihemo, Waikaia. Tho electorates which remain as they were are : Auckland West, Napier, Nelson, Hokitika, Wairau, Christchurch, Christchurch North and South, Dunedin Ease, Roslin and Wallace. [The Boundaries of the New Electoral Districts appear in our Eight Page.]