PARLIAMENTARY SEATS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 6 June 1936, Page 16

PARLIAMENTARY SEATS

POSSIBLE LOSSES Bf SOUTH ISLAND . QUESTION RAISED BY T. D. BURNETT [From Our Parliamentary WELLINGTON, June 1 The possible loss by the South !► land of two of its electorate* „ through periodical revision of bouodaries, was referred to in the Hooat of Representatives to-day in a tion asked by Mr T. D. Burnelt (Nat., Temuka), who sought f , minimum representation of 36 bers for the South Island. . Mr Burnett gave notice to IK the Prime Minister (the Rt H<o» M. J. Savage) whether, as a poflgg measure, and seeing that as a suit of the census the South lahnu would again lose from one to tfj seats to the North Island, he wouW provide for a minimum tion of 30 members for the Sow* Island. The procedure Mr Burnett gested' was that additional sentation should be allotted to North Island, but not at the cxjWP of the South Island. y. In a note to his question, y Burnett stated that the major pCT*lem before the Dominion ww was the development of* the SOW* Island by water-supply schemes®* irrigation works, so that it *ww carry a much greater populaw®* Consequently, statesmanship wouea dictate that the South Island s te*“* torial interests were not sacnno® to the North Island.