Redistribution of Parliamentary Seats

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 75, 30 March 1936, Page 6

Redistribution of Parliamentary Seats

TO BE CONSIDERED IN NEAR FUTURE. Per Press Association. IVELLINGTON, Last Night. Consideration will be given by the Government in tho near future to the cpiesliou of electoral representation with a prospective redistribution of seats in tho House of Representatives in accordance with the geographical 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 ot the commission responsible for defining the 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 whoso 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 bo 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 died since 1927 were Messrs James Trounson, John Strauchon and 11. Quaine. The official members of the North Island Commission are the Sur-veyor-General and Commissioners ot Crown Lands for the Taranaki and Auckland districts, while the official commissioners for the South Island are Commissioners of the Crown Lands for Westland, Canterbury and Otago land districts.