NEW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24913, 28 June 1946, Page 6

NEW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

FINAL DETERMINATION GAZETTED NAMES OF CITY SEATS CHANGED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 27. The inclusion of Port Chalmers in the Oamaru electorate; adjustments in the proposed boundaries of the Dunedin electorates, and radical alterations to the proposed Clutha and Central Otago districts are the main points in the final determination by the Representation Commission, which wa| gazetted to-day. Proposals for Canterbury have been amended in only two minor respects, by the inclusion of all the Spnngston district in Riccarton and by putting Galway avenuf in Fendalton instead of Selwyn. There are no significant changes in the boundaries originally proposed for North Island seats. The general impression in Parliamentary circles is that the changes made by the commission improve the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer’s chances at holding Oamaru and improve the position of Mr P. G. Connolly in what will now be called Dunedin Central, but that they have weakened North Dunedin from the Labour point of view. Central Otago, as finally determined, will now take <n the Central Otago railway line from Kokonga to Wingatui (included in Oamaru in the original proposals) and Mosgiel, the Taieri river area, and Lawrence (from Clutha as originally proposed). Clutha has moved further south and covers a good deal of the old Mataura electorate, including Clinton. Tapanui, Qore. and Mataura, included in Central Otago in the original proposals. The area the four Dunedin seats have lost by the transfer of Port Chalmers to Oamaru is made up in the south by the addition of Green Island borough and the area almost out to Wingatui, formerly in Clutha. to Mornington. • Part of the proposed Morfiington electorate lying north of the railway sheds and part of the Half-Way Bush area have been added to Dunedin Central. Maori Hill, a portion of the proposed Dunedin Central electorate, has been included in North Dunedin, which had been tentatively called Chalmers, to make up for the loss of Port Chalmers to Oamaru. Population of Electorates The Tarndale area of the Amur! County has been transferred to Marlborough from Hurunui, but the change affects only one person. In the north alterations to the provisional boundaries show that Paihia and Opua have been transferred from Marsden to Hobson. Great Barrier Island is now included in Auckland Central, instead of Hauraki. The new nurses’ home at the Waikato Hospital has been taken from Raglan and added to Hamilton. Apart from changing the name of , Chalmers to North Dunedin, the only changes in* names are that the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin seats provisionally, called ! ' ’ city have been renamed central. The adult populations of South Island electorates are shown as follows:—Westland, 14,620: Buller, 14,491; Nelson, 14,602: Marlborough, 14.143; Hurunui, 13.990; Selw?n. 13,772: Fendalton, 14,289: St. Albans, 13,885; Christchurch Central, 14,159; Avon, 14,097; Sydenham, 14,199: Riccarton, 14,349; Lyttelton, 14,637; Ashburton, 13,981; Timaru. 13,799; Waimate, 13,734; z Oamaru, 14.593; North Dunedin, , 14,040; Dunedin Central, 14,619; Momington, 14,532; St. Kilda. 14,258; Central Otago. 13,888; Clutha, 14,146; Invercargill, 14,275; Awarua, 13,742; Wallace, 13,832. The quota for the South Island seats is 14,180, and the quota for the North Island is 14,010. Tha report of the commission showing Irow the objections were dealt with will be presented to the House of Representatives in the next few days. BUTTER FOR U.S. FORCES LIMITED* SUPPLY FROM N.Z.

AMERICA TO SEND OTHER FATS TO BRITAIN (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) ' WELLINGTON, June 27. New Zealand has agreed to a UnitedStates request for the supply of not more than 10,000,0001 b of butter to be used for feeding American forces in the Pacific on condition that the United States supplies Britain with other suitable fats. This transaction was explained this evening by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser). Mr Fraser said that under the terms of the existing contract, all dairy produce and meat surplus to New Zealand s domestic requirements were, with some minor exceptions, sold to the British Government, and supplies might be diverted to other purposes only with the agreement of that Government. It was realised that the grave situation in the United Kingdom reSuired full discussion of the proposed iversion of butter with the British . Government. The New Zealand Government pointed out these factors to the United States authorities, empha- . sising that New Zealand itself was already strictly rationed in butter, and had m addition a voluntary rationing scheme, thus contributing to the relief of _iP e grave shortage of food. New Zealand Government felt that the diversion could be made only on condition that it would result in the provision from the United States of a supply of foodstuffs to Britain m addition to the quantities for which contracts had already been placed in the United States by Britain. An undertaking was received from the United States Department of Agriculture that the United Kingdom would receive from the United States in exchange for the New Zealand diversion Other suitable fats. The United Kingdom had agreed to the whole arrangement, and the New Zealand Government was now making arrangements for early shipment, the first instalment of which would go from Auckland to San Francisco. Financial details would be available later.