A serious accident occurred last night when u young man named W. Salt,
twenty years of age, fell through a light-and-air passage which Tuns through the Trocadero Hotel. Salt sustained in. ternal injuries which necessitated his removal to the Hospital.
Tho rearrangement of electoral boundaries proposed by the Commissioners is still receiving the anxious consideration of Soutli Island members. A document is at present being handed round for signature among merobere with the object of altering the margin of population which tho Commissioners are permitted lo come and fo upon in fixing the electoral boundaries. The margin is at preKent 1100, which in practice gives the Commissioners a lxilanco of .WO to be used on either sido. Tlio promoters of t.hp requisition «Bk that legislation be passed this session to incimse tho mar. gin to 24(10, giving a balance on or <(T of 1200. A prominent member (representing a oountry constituency), w'lio declined to sign the requisition, points out that if the proposed alteration were mado it would be quite possible so to manipulate tho allocation of the margin of popu. Intioii that South Island members aught be electcd on the basis of a population 1200 below the moan average quota or any electorate in the North Island. The possibilities of the proposal are very farreaching—one membor might represent 2100 more than his neighbours.
The amount expended by the various belligerent Governments on the war has beon estimated to have reached about .£15,000,000,000 sterling, a sum which all tlio .Governments in tho work! combined woulil not have dreamed of paying out for any constructive work, no matter how beneficial it might have been for mankind.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 25, 24 October 1917, Page 5
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