THE ELECTORAL ROLL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 6

THE ELECTORAL ROLL.

DOMINION REGISTRATIONS. DRIFT OF POPULATION. CITIES TO SUBURBAN* AREAS. (By Telegraph.—Tress WELLINGTON, this day. A dissection of the figures obtained by the Electoral Department as the result of compulsory registrations under the legislation passed last session discloses that the total names so far do not exceed the number on the rolls at the. 1922 election, but it is expected that later returns will show that compulsion has resulted in considerable additions. Returns are still coming in from many of the 7fi electoral district in the Dominion. The total recorded at April 4 was 679.376, compared with 700,111 in 1922. Since then up to May 5 12,304 additional registrations have teen received. The feature of the returns is the disclosure of a drift of population from the cities to suburban areas owing to their growing popularity for residential purposes and the steadily increasing requirements of commercial and industrial concerns in the city areas. All the Christchurch electorates show decreases in the number of registrations, and in the Dunedin group only one (Dunedin South) has an increase. Most of the Wellington and Auckland city and suburban electorates show increases.