LOST ELECTORATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 10

LOST ELECTORATE

MR. SAMUEL’S FATE ACCEPTED WITH RESIGNATION (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.') WELLINGTON, Friday. It was not to be expected that Mr. A. M. Samuel would conclude his speech without reference to the elimination of his electorate, Ohinemuri. This he did in the House to-night when he said that although it was anticipated that the North would gain an electorate at the expense of the South it was not anticipated that an old-es-tablished electorate like Ohinemuri would be cut out, and a long rambling one created many miles away. Those who would suffer were the people of Ohinemuri. (Laughter.)

“Well,” said Mr. Samuel, “I am assured that this is so. Half has gone into Thames and half into Waikato. An anomaly now exists in respect to small boroughs such as Waihi, and I feel that if community of interest had been considered this electorate would not have been wiped out.”

However, he continued, he would not cavil at the decision because he realised that the commission was free from political control. The readjustment might be all right from a surveyor’s point of view, but the Mercer electorate extended from the Hauraki Plains nearly to Auckland.

“However,” he concluded, “there it is and that is all we have to say about