REVISION OF ELECTORATES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1201, 9 August 1911, Page 4

REVISION OF ELECTORATES.

A QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.

It is now understood that tho preparation of the plans and details of the reports of tho Bepresentation Commissioners mill ocoupy another fort night. Mr. Malcolm asked the Acling-Primo Minister in tho House of Representatives yesterday afternoon to inform tho House as soon as possible how many seats tho South Island was likely to loso, which electorates would be' extinguished, and where the new electorates in the North. Island would be formed. Sir .Tamos Carroll replied that ho had not received the report, which, ho understood, was being printed.Ho did not think ho could give any information until tho i report was presented to Iho nous?. Mr. Massey remarked that there was a G revision in tho Act that the report must o laid upon the tablo of the House within ten days of its communication to tho Governor. Tho <Spoakcr (Sir Arthur Guinness) explained that, under the Legislature Act,, any proposal to niter electoral boundaries must bo Gazetted by tho Commissioners, and the decisions of the Commissioners would not bo given to tho Prime Minister until they had been finally gazetted. ' Mr. Massey: I hope the proposals will be gazetted on Thursday. The formalities in connection with the publication of the decisions of the Representation Commissioners are set forth in Sections 21 and 22 of tho LegislatureAct. Duo notice of the proposed boundarios will be given in. the. Gazette, and any objections to them must be considered' by tho Commissioners before courine to a final determination. Thn reports will then bo forwarded to the Governor, who will proclaim them in the Gazette. The Act requires that a copy of the report together with properly authenticated mapa of the electoral districts ehall be present, ed to tho House of Representatives by the Governor within ten days after ho receives it,