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SOUTH ISLAND REPRESENTATION COMMISSION. REPORT. To His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, Government House, Wellington. May it please Youk Excellency,— We, the several members of the South Island Representation Commission, have the honour to report to Your Excellency that,- in pursuance of Your Excellency's instructions, we met on the 15th day of November, 1906, and following days, when, in terms of " The Electoral Act, 1905," we divided the South Island of New Zealand, including Stewart Island, into thirty-five electoral districts, being the number allotted to it by the Joint Commission. Following upon a notice oublished in pursuance of the 10th section of the said Act, several objections in writing to our proposed divisions of the said South Island were lodged and received. We met at Christchurch this day, and gave careful consideration to the objections referred to. We now do ourselves the honour of attaching hereto, for Your Excellency's information, a description and plans of the several new electoral districts, with the names we have given thereto, such being and showing the "final determination" of Your Excellency's Commissioners, as provided by the 11th section of the above-mentioned Act. We have the further honour of advising Your Excellency that in terms of " The City Single Electorates Act, 1903," section 4, we have resolved and decided that the Electoral Districts of Dunedin North, Dunedin West, and Dunedin Central, as now constituted by us, shall be and they are substituted for the present Electoral Districts of Dunedin North, Dunedin Central, and Dunedin South; again, we ha"ye resolved and decided, in terms of section 4 of the last-mentioned Act, that the Electoral Districts of Christchurch North, Christchurch East, and Christchurch South as now constituted by us shall be and they are substituted for the present Electoral Districts of Christchurch North, Christchurch East, and Christchurch South. Given under our respective hands and seals, at the City of Christchurch, in the Colony of New Zealand, this seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine * hundred and seven. Thos. S. Weston, Chairman. (1.5.) Chas. S. Reeves. (1.5.) D. Barron. (1.5.) Eric C. Gold Smith. (1.5.) G. J. Roberts. (1.5.)

SCHEDULE OF OBJECTIONS.

No. Electoral District. Objection or Suggestion. From whom received. Decision of Commission. 1 Tuapeka .. Objecting to the abolition of the Tuapeka Elec- James Forbes and 1,490 torate others Objecting to the abolition of the Tuapeka Elec- William Jaok torate by public meeting held at Roxburgh Objecting to the abolition of the Tuapeka Elec- John S. Wood torate by the Tuapeka County Counoil Suggesting that the Mount Ida Electorate be | Thomas Dilling wiped out and Tuapeka be reinstated Suggesting that the old boundaries of Tuapeka J. Arbuckle should remain Publio meeting at Lawrence strongly in favour J. B. McKinley, Mayor of retaining the name of " Tuapeka " of Lawrence The districts of Grookston, Heriot, and Dun- J. Collie robin prefer to be joined to Clutha rather than Mount Ida Suggests that the name of " Bruce " should be A. Praser, J. P. called the " Bruce-Tuapeka " Electorate Wakanui Distriot object to be placed in the Sarah D. Corbett and 28 Selwyn Electorate others Suggests that the name " Waikouaiti " be H. Buckland retained Suggesting that the Oxford Biding be included A. Aneall and 64 others in the Kaiapoi Electorate, and that the Waimakariri and Ashley Rivers be the boundaries Suggesting that the district be the Waimaka- Malcolm MaoFarlane riri and Ashley Rivers and 1,252 others.. Suggests that the large country area lying T. Mackonzie, M.H.R. .. between Oamaru and Chalmers should be given some voioe in having its interests represented Objecting to that portion of the Pelorus Sounds R. Beauchamp which is at present in the Wairau Electorate being inoluded in the Nelson Electorate Public meeting objects to the new electoral W. Maslin, T. Tanner, district south of the Rangitata River being and 970 others inoluded in the Ashburton Electorato Suggests—(1) That the Town of Keefton J. Colvin, M.H.R. should remain in the Buller Eleotora.te with Crushington and Murray Ridings ; (2) suggests the Inangahua River as the boundaryline ; (3) the proposed boundary is not a natural one 1 2 3 4 5 Ii 7 Appeal disallowed, except as to the name j~ " Mount Ida," which is changed to " Tuapeka." Objection disallowed. 8 9 Ashburton 10 Waikouaiti Appeal disallowed. 11 Selwyn Suggestions not practicable. 12 18 Kaiapoi .. Chalmers.. V Also impracticable. I Objections impraoticable. ii Wairau .. ir, Geraldine Disallowed. Buller .. Impracticable. if;