COUNTING IN THE SOLDIERS.
IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES. Tlio Parliamentary Representation (Expeditionary Eorces) Adjustment Bill, introduced into tlio House of Representatives last week, is a simple measure to provide for the reckoning of tlio soldiers absent on active service in tlio population of this' country for'the purpose of defining the electoral boundaries, a task -which must soon be undertaken by the Boundary Commissioners. It provides that the Minister of Defenco shall givo a certificate showing as on- October 15, 1915, the date of 'the census, tlio number of mon absont on service, the number in camp. In determining the population theso men aro to be allocated proportionately by the commissioners in such manner as, they think fit to the urban and rural districts, and to the several electoral districts.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3163, 15 August 1917, Page 5
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128COUNTING IN THE SOLDIERS. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3163, 15 August 1917, Page 5
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