CONSTITUENCY CHANGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1927, Page 5

CONSTITUENCY CHANGES

I’ll pi FINAL ! DECISIONS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 12. In the final decisions of the Electoral Boundaries Commission, published in' a supplementary Gazette, a few changes have been made as the result of objecting petitions to the provisional boundaries originally defined by the Commissioners. Some changes in names of electorates have been effected in the Auckland district, and there is a new electorate called ‘Auckland Suburbs,’’ which, from the description given in the Gazette, appeal’s to comprise a greater part of the old Eden electoral district. Eden formerly was really a semi-rural electorate. “New Eden,” which, when the bpuydai’ies were .provisionally published, was described as Auckland Sop th. Now it becomes a city electorate, bounded by Grey Lynn, Auckland Central and Auckland East, and extending down towards (he Alanukau Road locality. Th,ere are no material changes in other Auckland City electorates. The new electorate, which was provisionally named Mercer, is renamed Hauraki, and takes in the greater part of the Thames electorate. Ohinemuri is done away with, and absorbed in Ilauraki, Thames, Tauranga and Waikato.

There have been slight amendments in Tauranga, which now extends along the Bay ol Plenty coastline to the boundary of the Bay of Plenty dis Lrict, near Whakatane, and along the north of Botoehu and the Rotomi( Lakes. The new name. “New Plymouth.” as applied to Taranaki, stands.

It is understood that petitions were lodged io Wellington in respect to the Willis Street area, but it does not appear that any alteration has been made in regard to the boundaries as provisionally rearranged. The other local city electorates remain without further change. The abolition pf the yAshburton electorate has been confirmed by the Commission, ami a new electorate formed by the merging of Ashburton and Ellesmere. However, it is not now to be called Ellesmere, as formerly proposed, but Mid-Canterbury. It. is observed that in the Otago District, “Central Otago’’ is the name given to (he old Wakatipu electorate. The provisional boundaries gave the new name as “Otago Central,” but it apepars that the Commissioners have considered Central Otago more Other electorates are not affected to any large extent.