THE ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 4

THE ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES.

ABSURDITIES AND ANOMALIES

'^. &** A«saland Gazette" of the l^tli mst. B ei,K out in full tho boundaries oi the various electoral districts as proiwsed by the South Island Representation C>>tnmission, of wliich AhRobert T. feadd is the chairman.' Copies oi- tno "Gazette" and the maiw* of the proiMj^tl districts are now to hand.

The proposed boundaries as gazetted ■are as iohovm :

NELSON. _ Nelson District comprises the existing, Nelson Electoral District less that paxt of the bounds County lying west of FeloriiH Sound, also less that part, of Marlborough County lying east of \Vaimea County and soutn-west of bounds County. This district also comprises the Mcutcre Hiding of Waime-i County also that part ot the Wai-it.i Hiding lyjing; north of the Trass's Valley road and t«o western boundary vi section 32. biock x, Waimea survey'distrust, we*t- of the Nelson-Tadmor railway from /it ß junction with Trass,. Valley road to Church Valley road north of the Church Valley road to its junction wjth the Wairoa river, and by that river to its junction with the Wai'iti Ridiu.e; Doiamary at the llodinw , nver.

BXJLLEB. Buller District comprises the CoJlingwood County, the Takaka County tho Motueka Hiding of.Waimca, Couxu.7 the Motueka .Borough, that part of £h« Buller Comity.lying north of the existing Buller Electoral" District boundary, together ivitii the Murchison County and the Inangahna County.

WAIRATJ. . AYairau District comprises the who;*-, of Sound* County, together, with tho Polorus ikduyr, the-Picton--Riding, the Haveloek Hiding au'd; Town District, and the Spring 'Creek Riding of Marfborough County; also that part of tho Omaka Hiding and Roati District., Opawa Subdivision,, lying north of tho Omaka river from its junction with tho mouth oi' tho Waiiau river to the eastj.ern boundary of the Brrjagh of Ble'nI heim; also that part o%the said riding > and1 road "district, Opawa Subdivisio-.r lying south i>i the Borough of Blenheim and In)own as Redwoodtown - together with the whole of that part of the aforesaid riding and road district lying wast of the Borough o f Blenheim and known as the Itemviek Subdivision. Thi-i district also comprises the Borough of Picton and the Boroughof Blenheim.