ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 92, 30 March 1936, Page 9

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

Possible Readjustment

By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, March 29. Consideration will be given by the Government in the near future to the question of electoral representation with a prospective redistribution of seats in the House of Representatives in accordance with the gegraphical distribution of population as revealed by the census last week. The appointment of three representation commissioners will have to be made in order to complete the personnel of the commission responsible for defining electoral boundaries. This work is undertaken by two commissions, one for the North Island, and one for the South Island. Each commission consists of three official members, whose appointments are statutory, and two unofficial members, who are life appointees. However, as only one of the four unofficial members who were on the commissions when the last revision was made in 1927, is living to-day, it will be the duty of the Government to make three new appointments. The surviving unofficial representation commissioner is Mr Harman Reeves, chairman of the Dunedin Stock Exchange, and the three others who have died since 1927 were Mr James Trounson, Mr John Strauchon, and Mr IL Quaine.

The official members of the North Island commission are the SurveyorGeneral and the Commissioners of Crown Lands for the Taranaki and Auckland districts, while tho official commissioners for tho South Island are the Commissioners of Crown Lands for Westland, Canterbury and Otago land districts.