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SCHEDULE OF OBJECTIONS— continued.

N<». Electoral District. Objections or Sugk'e-tinns. Name and Address of Olijector or Writer. Decision of Coimni'sion. 31 32 33 M 36 36 37 38 39 Bruce Taieri Tuapeka Awarua Invercargill Petition praying that the portion of the Beau- H. Wood, J. P., Acceded to for mont Riding comprised in Blocks I, XVI, and Dunkeld Blocks 1 and XIV, Crookston Survey District, be severed XVI. from the proposed Bruce Electorate, and included in the Otago Central Electorate Suggesting that the districts of Waipori, Law- J. Rattray, Secretary, \ Cannot be given renoe, and Waitahuna should be placed in Tuapeka Mining ! effect to. an electorate whore mining is carried on and Prospecting Suggesting that Blocks I, XVI, and XIV, Association Crookston Survey District, should be taken T. Pilling .. .. Suggestion adopted out of Bruce Electorate, and put into Otago as to Blocks I and Central Electorate XVI. Protesting against the Taieri Electorate being Hon. T. Mackenzie, After careful conwiped out, as it is one of the oldest elec- M.P. sideration, suggestorates in Otago ; also suggests recasting tions found to be the Otago electorates impracticable. Forwarding the copy of resolution passed by H. Wilson, Clerk, Otago Central conthc Maniototo County Council : " That the Maniototo County sidered more suit-well-known appellation of ' Mount [da ' Council able, should re restored instead of 'Tuapeka,' and that the Representation Commission should give due consideration, as far as possible, to community of interests involved." Objecting to the Waikiwi portion of the Awa- H. Jackson and 40 No alteration to be rua Electorate being included in Invercar- others made, gill Electorate .. Petitioning that Section 2, that part of See- J. N. Fowler and 35 Ditto, tion 22 lyiiij.' east of the Invercargill-Kingston others Railway, the south part of Section 25, all in Block XV, and Section 12, and the west pail of Section 13 of Block IV, all in tnveroargill Hundred, and known as Waikiwi, be taken out of the proposed Awarua Electorate and placed in the Invercargill Electorate Forwarding copy of resolution carried at a William A. Ott, Mayor Boundaries amended public meeting held in tnveroargill as fol- of Invercargill to include Seclows : " That this public meeting objects tions 8, 9, 10, to the proposed boundaries of the Invercar- Block 1, Invertrill Electorate, and requests that they be cargill Hundred, altered so as to include the old Electorate of [nvercargill and Sections 8, 9, and 10 of Block I, Section 3 of Block I, Section 12 and part of 13 of Block IV, and Sections 27, 2, the eastern part of Section 1, and the southern part of Section 25, of Block XV, Inveroargul Hundred " Objecting to the proposed Invereargill Elec- j John H. Pay and 9fi5 Ditto, torate on the following grounds: (1.) That | others the boundary as proposed leaves out Sections 8, 9, and III of Block I, [nvercargill Hundred ; whereas the same should lie included therein, as they are within the present Boronjrh of [nvercargill. (2.) That the boundary as proposed includes Sections 1 to 17 of Block II. and Sections r>. (>, 7, and 34 to 39 of Block I, Invercargill Hundred; whereas the same should be excluded therefrom, as all of these, with the exception of part of Section No. 35, are rural land, and the occupiers have no interests in common with those of the electors of the- Invercargill Electorate, and these lands should therefore be left in the Awarua Electorate. (3.) That the eastern boundary of the proposed Electorate is about four miles from the Invereargill Post-office; whereas the suburb of Waikiwi, including the Townships of Collingwood and Prestonville, are not two miles therefrom. (4.) That for many years past that portion of the suburb of Waikiwi comprising Sections 2 and 27, part of Section 1, lying east of the Invercargill-Kings-ton Railway, and the south part of Section 25, all in Block XV, and Section 12 and part of 13, Block IV, all in Invercargill Hundred, has been subdivided into and occupied as Township Allotments, under the names of " Collingwood" and " Prestonville," and the same are joining the Borough of Invercarpill, and the interests are identical with the interests of the electors of Invercargill. (5.) That the suburb of Waikiwi was for a long time connected by a horse tramway, and is now being permanently connected by an electric tramway system with the Borough of Invercargill, and should therefore be included within the same electorate. (().) That the population resident on the lands mentioned in clause 2 hereof are about the same in number as on the lands mentioned in clauses 1 and 4. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that the proposed boundaries of the Invercargill Electorate be altered so as to exclude therefrom all lands mentioned in clause 2 hereof, and to include therein all the lands mentioned i in clauses 1 and 4 hereof