AFTER THE CENSUS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 79, 23 May 1911, Page 5

AFTER THE CENSUS.

ELECTORAL BOUNI)ARIES. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 22. Though the census total is about two hundred thousand oft the linn I tally, it has become evident that the North Island will take at least two seats from the South as a result of tne How of population northwards since the 1905 census. The .•Representation Commissioners will probably bo ready to commence their re-arrangement or electoral boundaries in six weeks' time. When they sat in 1905, the population of tire respective islands was —North 170,732, South 411,0 b!. The Commissioners, in allocating districts for tiro seventy-six European members arc on titled ,to add 25 tper cent, to the rural population, and when this was done,’ tire total divided by r.exonty-six warp .13,400. this year tne quota is likolv'to Le at least 2000 higher for each constituency. Anticipating that the tendency in the South Island will he to increase tire size of the present constituencies in view of the larger increase in population in the North Island, Mr. John Duncan, member for Wairau, hopes to see that portion of the Marli borough province which was included in the Nelson electorate at the last revision of boundaries, returned to his electorate, with which it is in his opinion more naturally associated. A petition to that effect is already in circulation, and will he placed before tiro Representation Commissioners w hen they arc ready to proced with their task.