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REVISION OF ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES By Teleeranh— ARsoctaftnn WELLINGTON, June 30. 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 the North Island and one for the South Island, and the Minister in Charge of the Electoral Office, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, announced to-night that they were to meet in Wellington as a joint Commission next week. After 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 a quota and allot the number of seats to each island in accordance with the distribution of the population as revealed by the census last year. Sitting as two separate Commissions, they will then proceed to fix provisional boundaries in the two islands. The undertaking is expected to occupy approximately three weeks. Sittings will be held in Wellington, but the South Island Commission will later visit Christchurch to near objections to .lie povisional boundaries fixed for the Southern electorates.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20768, 1 July 1937, Page 8
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