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NORTH ISLAND REPRESENTATION COMMISSION. REPOIIT. To His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies. May it please Your Excellency,— We, the members of the North Island Representation Commission appointed by Your Excellency ou the 26th day of October, 1906, have the honour to report that we commenced our sittings on the 16th day of November last for the purpose of dividing the North Island into electoral districts. Notice of the boundaries as provisionally fixed by us under the authority of our Commission was duly published in the New Zealand Gazette, and the objections and suggestions that were received were duly considered and dealt with by the Commissioners in the manner set forth in the attached schedule. The Commission subsequently finally approved and confirmed the boundaries of the electoral districts, and now respectfully submit for Your Excellency's consideration the names and descriptions of the same, together with a map showing the actual and nominal populations respectively agreeing with the totals as allotted by the Joint Commission. Attached is also a resolutioji by the Commission naming the particular electoral districts that are to be substituted for the three electoral districts in each of the Cities of Auckland and Wellington as constituted under " The City Single Electorates Act, 1903," for the purpose of section 4 of the said Act as to licensing , districts. Given under our hands and seals, this eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven. Tho*. Humphries, Chairman. (1.5.) H. S. Wardell. (1.b.) W. H. Quick. (1.b.) Frank Simpson. (1.5.) James Mackenzie. (1.5?.) RESOLUTION. Resolved, That, for the purposes of subsection (a) of section 4 of " The City Single Electorates Act, 1903 ", —(1) the Electoral Districts of Auckland West, Auckland Central, and Auckland East, us now defined, be substituted for the existing electoral districts of the same names; (2) the Electoral Districts of Wellington North, Wellington Central, and Wellington East, as now defined, Ixs substituted for the existing electoral districts of the same names. —Carried.

SCHEDULE OF OBJECTIONS.

., Electoral ?2- District. I Objections or Suggestions. Name and Address of Objector or Writer. Date. Decision of Commission. 1. Waikato .. That the boundary of WaiUato Electorate l>6 extended one mile north of Ohinewai Railwaystation ; thence across country south of the Waikere Lake to the back boundary S. M. Ralph and E. V. ! Ralph, Dunedin 1907. Jan. 14 .. : The request cannot be given effect to, as the population limits of the adjoining districts will not permit of the proposed alteration being made. „ 15 .. Ditto. 2 i R( quest that they may be retained in the old Waikato District inftead of the proposed Franklin (same as above) L. B. Harris and 51 others, settlers and residents of Rangiriri, Waikato 3 Stratford .. Ask that the Stratford County be made the nucleus of an electoral district, having with the Borough of Stratford a population of between eight and nine thousand people Town Clerk of Stratford Borough Council 1906. Dec. 22 .. J. Thomson and 166 electors in Ngaire District E. F. Hemingway, j secretary, public committee of electoral boundaries G. A. Marohant, Chairman, Stratford County Council 532 electors of the proposed Patea Electorate 1907. Jan. 12 .. 4 Egmont .. 5 j Pray that they be not included in Egmont, but in Stratford Electorate Requesting that the West Riding of Stratford County be included in Stratford Electorate inf-tead of Egmont Forwards requests that residents at Cardiff and at Rowan be included in the Straford Electorate Pray that the name be changed to " Hawera" , 12 .. . 6 „ 12 .. 7, i Patea „ 14 .. Not ODnsidered advisable to abandon the present name.