ELECTORAL ROLLS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 8

ELECTORAL ROLLS.

DISSECTION OF FIGURES. INCREASE IN SUBURBS. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) ' WELLINGTON, June 8. A dissection of the figures obtained as a result, of the compulsory registration under the' legislation passed last session disclosed that'the total names so far do not exceed the number on the rolls at the 1922 election, but it expected that later returns willoshow that has resulted in considerable additions. Keturns are still coming in from many of the seventysix .electoral districts in the Dominion. The total recorded at April 20th was 679,37b', compared with 700,111 in 1922. Since then', up to May 15th, 12,304 additional registrations ' have been received. 1 A feature of the returns is the disclosure of the drift of population from cities to suburban areas, owing to' their growing popularity for residential purposes, and the steadily increasing requirements of commercial and in* dustrial concerns in city areas. AH the Christchurch electorates show decreases in the number of registrations, and in the Dunedin group only one, Dunedin South, has an increase. Most of the Wellington and Auckland city and suburban electorates show increases. Following are the details for the city areas, -the current year's figures being compared with those of 1922: —

1926 1922 Wellington North ... 11,302 11,749 Wellington Central .. Wellington East ... 9867 10,553 11,792 10,867 11,500 WeLlin gton fcioutli ... 10,733 Wellington Suburbs 12,779 10,792 Hutt 10,742 . 9874 Auckland, Waitemata 12,486 11,184 Eden 12,017 9359 Auckland East 11,108 11,409 Auckland Central 8901 10,343 Auckland West 11,243 11,068 Grey Lynn ... ... 11,7.55 10,821 Hoskill 13,105 11,79/ Parnell ... <12,633 12,146 Manukau 12,081 10,715' Christchurch North 11,718 11,975 Christchurch East 10,323 11,336 Christchurch South 10,504 10,559 Kicearton 9,521 9,627 Avon 10,989 11,059 Lyttelton 9,974 10,922 Dunedin North 10,658 Dunedin West 10,572 10,783 10,830 Dunedin Central 11,124 10,420 Dunedin South 10,689 Chalmers 7,537 7,630