NEW REPRESENTATION ACT.
-!" O . -. . . ' [Bt TKI.KGRAPH.J TROM OITR CORItESPOXDENT.] WEIjLINGTON, November 30. ' The" Eepreßcntation Act Amendment .Bill introduced by the Premier, consists ,flf % following operative clause*:—On )fc expiration by eflluxion of time or ?tittr sooner determination of the present ■Searal'Assembly, tho number of members to 1» thereafter elected to the House of - Representatives shall be seventy in all, and Cssieli members sixty-seyc.n shall be deeted under the provisions of the Repre'natation Act, ISS7, and the remaining ttree shall be elected under the pro--Visions of the Maori Represental&m Act, 1867, as perpetuated l)y the .Msori Representation Acts Continuance* *6t 1870. For the purpose of giving 4fect to the Representation Act, 1887, the Heppesentation Committee in office under M^Act shall, when directed by. the and within such time as he HaS Sewrmine, do all such acts and »&lßgs an may be necessary to carry put j w provisions of Sections 8 and 1 of such j **a!*altercd by this Act. On the expira«m by effiuxioii of time or other sooner fetennluatfeii of the present General tosemWy, Sic Southern Maori Electoral wstifet J%abolished as a separate district, _ tod Is added to the Western Electoral *iori District, so that the said two fittricts shall thenceforth form one •Sectoral district, and return one member.
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Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6923, 1 December 1887, Page 5
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