ADJUSTMENTS PLANNED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19311, 29 April 1937, Page 9

ADJUSTMENTS PLANNED

electoral boundaries post.cense* pevlston commissions appointed (Per Tross Association.) OHMSTCIU'RCTI, last night. The Cabinet to-day approved of the personnel of the two permanent representation commissions which are set tip bv the Government alter 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, the Hon. 11. (".!. R. Mason, as follows :

North Island representation commission: The Surveyor-General. Mr. 11. ,T. E. Walsh. .Mr. I'aync (Auckland). Mr. Arthur Rosscr (Auckland; the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, Mr. K. M. Grahame, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki district. Mr. A. P. Waters.

South Island representation commission: Mr. John Bigg (Christcburch), Mr. Ilnrmuu Hecves (Duncdin). the Commissioner of Crown Lauds for Canterbury, Mr. N. C. Kensington, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago, Mr. F. 11. Waters, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Westland, Mr. I!. King. Messrs. Payne. Rossjer, liigg, .and llarman Reeves are the unofficial members of the commissions. L'ndcr the Electoral Act, 1927, which makes provision for their appointment, it is stipulated that each of lite commissions is to consist of live 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 deaths of former commissioners.

The commissions will sit together as a joint commission to fix on the basis laid down by the Act the number of districts for the North .Island and South Island respectively. After thai, they act separately and independently their duties being confined to the island they represent.