ELECTORATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 8

ELECTORATES.

NEW BOUNDARIES.

AUCKLAND CHANGES.

OBJECTIONS OVERRULED.

CASE OF NO-UCENSE AREAS

(By Telejrrnph.-—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLIXOTON, this day,

j An important recommendation affecting licensed premises is made by ihe electoral boundary commissioners in thjeir final report submitted- to Parliament today, that the law should be altered'in cases where it is found desirable jto extend the- boundary of a no-licenfee district so as to include licensed premises. \ The commission recommends the Government to introduce legislation to provide that irnrier such circumstances the license sba.ll in no way be .affected' by such lioundary alteration. V Another general recommendation is that in order more adequately to meet the requirement that regard should >be had for community of interest adjusting boundaries, the present mit ted margin above or below the quota should be increased from 1 per cent to 2§ per cent for urban electorates, and from 5J to 10 per cent in rural electorates. Lack of this, wider discretion, states the commission, prevented it from giving, effect to a number of requests based on community of interest which were recognised as being just and reasonable. Petitions Unavailing. The changes made from the provisional boundaries announced earlier are not important. A large number of petitions protesting against the elimination of the Chalmers electorate produced the decision "unable to comply."

The South Island section of the commission reported in regard to the Chalmers decision that an examination of 12 Otago and Southland electorates showed such a large deficiency, particularly in the vicinity of Dunedin, that it was found necessary to eliminate Chalmers. They added: "Had any attempt been made to eliminate the district elsewhere it would have seriously disturbed the majority of existing South Island electorates."

Some changes in names have been approved. The Palmerston electorate is to be known as Palmerston North. Parnell U to be renamed Remuera, as better describing the area concerned. Mnnukaii will be called Onehunga in the future for the same reason. City Boundaries. The commission complied with a suggestion that the boundary between Auckland Central and Grey Lynn should be by Bute Street, instead of following allotments.. A suggestion that the southern boundary of the Remuera district should follow streets as far as practicable, instead of following the Auckland City boundary, was also complied with. The commission was unable to comply with objections by the Devonport Borough Council ami others to the inclusion of the borough in the Auckland East district, and a request for retention in the Waitemata district. "Impracticable," was the commission's decision in reply to a protest against the inclusion of a part of the borouo-h of Mount Albert in Auckland Suburbs, and suggestions for amendments to the Eden, Roskill and Onehunga electorates. An objection by the One Tree Hili Borough Council and the Ellerslie Town Board to a proposal to change the name of the electorate from Manukau to Onehunga was not sustained. I

A suggestion by the Ohinemuri County Council, that the southern boundary of Thames be extended to exclude the recent addition to the county was not adopted.

The commission det-ided that it was impracticable to adopt a suggestion that the Tc Aroha Borough be included in the Waikato or Hauraki districts.