ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17157, 9 November 1917, Page 5

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

OBJECTIONS DEALT WITH. < (Feom Oub Own CoebespondentJ , WELLINGTON, November 8. Tho Electoral Boundaries Commissioners;! for the North Island have practically com.i| pleted their work, having heard and. dealfcs with all the objections raised to the pro-,2 posed new boundaries. Most of; the oS3 jections concerned three hotels in the Aack»| Jand province, which had , been included -ia|j the "dry": areas of Eden and Ohinemuri.B The report of tho commissioners has noil yet been presented, but it is understood! that these cases were not difficult to deaL with. The hotels have been restored to| their former electorates. It is understood?; also that the demand of the people "olja Taumarunui that the name of the Wai«j marina electorate should bo changed toj Taumarunui, since this town has eluded in it, has not been conceded fori tho reason that tho greater portion of tbej district as now constituted is that parts which • was formerly included in tho deca~ tcrate of Waimarino. A similar demands was made by the people of They claimed that their town, which wa3| formerly tho -biggest town in the electorates of Waipawa, is nqw the bigeost in the 3 electorate of Pahiatua, and they asked that-*l the name of the electorate bo changed Dannevirke. There wtere objections > tog this, one of them being that whereas Pahia»S tua is in the centre of the Danne-J virko is on tho fringe of it. • It .is stood that this request also has been fused) by tho commissioners. Tho South Island Commissioners _ havaj much more complicated tasks, and it is nofj3 expected that they will oompleto labours for some time. ,!|j