NEW BOUNDARIES ?
TO BE STRAIGHTENED OUT
An assurance that the, .position re garding the electoral boundaries would be straightened out as soon as possible wa? given- members of the.Opposition in.. the House' of Represeritatives this morning by.the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon.' M. J. Savage), in :reply to concern expressed, about; possible' de; velopm.ents' in- the South Island. ', ;
; Mr; H-. S; -S. Kyle -(National, Rieearton) said that' with the increasing. population irr the .North "Island- and the decreasing population in the South Island there was:a possibility that the: South Island would.' lose,one, and per-, haps two", se'a'ts'iii ■the'House'of-RepreV-sentatives." "There '• -was a- possibility1 that the Norths Island .would-dom-inatej the "position;" he did 'not' 'want the South Island to -be-a suburb of Wel- : lington. .11 was. a. serious position for the South Island,,which, ,he .declared,! was developed long ,befpre thp North Island was out;of'the" .bog, -and "lie asked that the question should; l-eceive the considiaration- of Cabinet. ' ::
.The Ho'it. 'A. Hamilton;' (National, Wallace) • asked ■ that the r matter1-be dealt *with as soon as possible, so" that the- position' could.-be cleared 'lip.'
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Evening Post, Issue 87, 9 October 1936, Page 10
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179NEW BOUNDARIES ? Evening Post, Issue 87, 9 October 1936, Page 10
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