THE NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1666, 4 July 1887, Page 3

THE NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.

(pBB *BEaS ASBOOIAXiOK.') WELLINCrTON, July 4. There have been many changes in the electoral boundaries in adjusting districts to the quota of population, resulting in the number of electorates in the North Island being increased by three and in the Middle Island being decreased by the same numbers, now being respectively thirty-nine and * fifty-two, or in all 01 for the colony. The decrease in tliu Middle Island has" been effected by making one . electorate less in tbe group of the West Coast, Nelson, and Marlborough electorates, and two less in the Canterbury and Otago group. In the North Island two additional electorates are given to the Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke's Bay group ot electoral districts, and one to the Auckland group. The alterations and adjustments included by these changes have necessarily so affected the boundaries as to render some of the old names of electorates no longer applicable or descriptive. The following names have, therefore, been discarded:— Auckland** East, Wellington South, Wairarapa. South, Wairarapa North, Pioton, Waimea, Stanmore, Coleridge, Wakanni, Geraldine, Moeraki, and Waikouaiti. The new names are : — Auckland Central, Ponsonby, Woodville, Masterton, Wairarapa, Wellington East, Wellington South and suburbs, Waimea, Pioton, Linwood, Banaitata, Waibemo, and Waikari. The electorates which rsmain as they were are — Auckland West, Napier, Nelson, Hokitika, Wairau, Christ* ehnreh North, Christchurch Bonth, Boslyn, Dunedin East, and Wallace.