ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 April 1937, Page 7

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES.

COMMISSIONS SET UP FOR EACH ISLAND. NEW APPOINTMENTS (By Telegraph—.tress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Cabinet to-day approved of the personnel of the two permanent representation commissions which are set up by the Government after every census to consider the readjustment of electoral boundaries on the basis of any redistribution of population. The new appointments were announced by the Minister at present in charge of the Electoral Department, Hon. H. G. R. Mason, as follows:

North Island Representation Commission: The Surveyor General (Mr. H. J. E. Walshe), Mr. John Payne (Auckland), Mr. Arthur Rosser (Auckland), the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland (Mr. K. M. Grahame), the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki district (Mr. A. F. Waters). South Island Representation Commission: Mr. John Rigg (Christchureh), Mr. Harman Reeves (Dunedin), the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury (Mr. N. C. Kensington), the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago (Mr. F. H. Waters), the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Westland (Mr. B. King).

Messrs Payne, Rosser, Rigg and Harman Reeves are the unofficial members of the Commissions. . Under the Elee- ! toral Act, 1927, which makes provision for their appointment it is stipulated that each of the Commissions is to consist of five members, three members on each being the officials in the permanent positions included in the above appointments and the remaining two members being unofficial members nominated by the House of Representatives. Of the new appointments Mr. Harman Reeves is the only surviving unofficial member of the Commissions appointed after the last census. All the other appointments are to positions made vacant by the deaths of former Commissioners. The Commissions sit together as a joint Commission to fix on a basis laid down by the Act the number of districts for the North Island and South Island respectively. After that they act separately and independently, their duties being confined to the island they represent.