ELECTORAL REPRESENTATION,

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 111, 12 May 1911, Page 6

ELECTORAL REPRESENTATION,

NORTH AND SOUTH. FBI TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) > AUCKLAND, This Day. fttr. Jameu Allen, M.P., interviewed; , regarding representation, said ho expected the North would gain at least' three coats from the South cus the result of the census. In order that the South Island may not go on. losing Beats, Mr., Allen considers that after the next elec-> tion Parliament should legislate to provide that while no further reduction*, in the South eha.llta.ko place, if an. mi creaee in population warrants it, in-, creased repneseiitatlion may be gmaty the North. Thin would entail an increase in the number of members of Paas liament, but it would be th* beet fiolu-* tion of a difficult problem. k A SCOW ASHORE. o fBT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.} " GISBORNE, This Day. The scow Waikonini was beached aliTokomaru Bay last week to land 1 ai cargo of timber. She was refloated ou; Tuesday, but did not get properly, cleared of the beach, and a heavy southerly roll set in, which stranded hen broadside. Some difficulty lias sine* been experienced in the endeavours tof get her off. The Union Company's tender Tuatea was despatched to Toko* niaru this morning to render a»aislaac»v THE COST OF RAT POISON, . ! ♦ LOCAL RATEPAYEBS OR GENERAL TAXPAYERS? A telegram to-day from Palmerstott North states :—" Comment was passed ait the meeting of the Palmerston HospittJl Board last night on the high price, charged to local bodies by the Health! Department for rat poison. A reaoiutionK was adopted asking tho Health Departi ment to supply poison free." The department's brief reply, giwsifc to a Post enquiry to-day, is that tho« local bodies are charged nothing mor«k than tho cost price.