ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19365, 1 July 1937, Page 14

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

PLANS FOR REVISION COMMISSIONS TO MEET (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Arrangements have been made for the Electoral Boundary Representation Commissions to make a start next week with the revision of the electoral boundaries of seats in the House of Representatives. There are two commissions, one for lie North Island and one for the South Island and the Minister-in-Charge of the Electoral Office, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason announced tonight that they were to meet in Wellington as a joint commission on July 3. ' Following this meeting, the commissions would sit separately and proceed with the work of adjusting the boundaries in the two islands. When the commissions meet next week as a joint commission, they will fix the quota and allot the number of seats to each island, in accordance with the distribution of population as revealed by the census last year. Sitting as two separate commissions, they will then proceed to fix the provisional boundaries in the two islands; The undertaking is expected to occupy approximately three weeks. The sittings will be held in Wellington, but the South Island commission will later visit Christchurch to hear objections to the provisional boundaries fixed for the southern electoral 3.