THE REPRESENTATION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3120, 28 June 1881, Page 3

THE REPRESENTATION.

The New Zealand Times shows how unfair ifc would have been to have passed last session a Representation Bill based on the census returns for 1878. "According to tbe last census Wanganui has two members for 9227 people ; Wairarapa, two for 10,570; Hutt, one for 3633 ; Wellington City, two for 20,535 ; New Plymouth, one for 2326 ; Grey and Bell, one for 4941; and Egmont, one for 6372 ; Onehunga, one for 2180; Auckland City West, two for 11,400. In the South Island Waimea has one for 2839 ; Motueka, one for 2688 ; one for 1646 ; Cheviot, one for 1344; Nelson City, two for 6763 ; and Nelson Suburbs, one for 2561 ; Hokitika has two for 7908 ; Totara, one for 2,530 ; Mount Ida, one for 3,227 ; Dunstan, one for 3,881 ; Wallace, one for 3,487 ; Coleridge has but one member for 12,420 ; Heathcote, one for 11,631 ; Koslyn, one for 11,607 ; Caversham, one for 10,494 ; Christchurch, three for 30,701 ; and Dunedin, three for 24,441.

Auckland Provincial District has eighteen representatives for 96,169 people ; Taranaki, three for 14,639; Wellington, nine for 61,469; Hawke's Bay, three for 17,020. Total North Island, thirty-three members for 190,884 people.

Marlborough has three representatives for 9,273 people ; Nelson, eight for 26,177 ; Wesfcland, four for 14,756; Canterbury, fourteen for 111,436 ; and Otpgo, twenty-one for 134,401. Total South Island, fifty for 296,037.