The Electoral District Boundaries

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 8, 5 July 1887, Page 2

The Electoral District Boundaries

;o [PEB UNITEEt^PiEBS ASSOCIATION. j 7V-, ! --ti^ iWfMHNGTON, Julr4. / ffliere naVje' be t en"*many changes in in;- ti le ejlectSral in adjusting j^stkcts^the^||ta.of population, in thV^utnße%>f electorates in the North Island hj^ng increased by three and in tfiS~South Island decreased by the same nj^mbSk—^ The numbers now TjeingTespectively taiirty- A mine and fifty-two, pr in sXL mnetQ&oner for the colony, <The f oMbwing -namea have been Aiscarde^d^---AucMand East, Wellington 'SoutbT, "WairOTapia^otith, Waifa±apa''Ncw^, ; iMctonj Waimea, Stanmore, Coleridge, WaikanuL Geraldfne/ 1 Mseraki," '&£'-- WaikouaitL The new names are :— Aucklana' lCenrincal}«?Ponsorißyi: Woodville^i®&t«g!ton, Wairarapa, Wellington East, WeHingtbttSeuth and ' Suburbs, Waimea, vPicton, Lin wood, Rangaiata, :Waihemo, andJßakaia. The : electorates which remain a o they were, are : -T-Aiaek^aAftWe^t^riNapieriqiNe^n, Hk)kiti^ r .>T'i { Wairau;v {^(3hxisfchurcb> I^pr^KiQhnstcliu^h "South,- iDanedin, j-Ejasti-Roslyn, BtfL(l W&}lacesi;> r .) * The FoxtQU. old electorate has been diminished by. cutting off all the coun- : Jry,around : Wellingtoß^fifonrua^ and fiouth of : Paikakariki, and ipcreesed byrinchieljng the whele of- the Oroua RididgV nearly/the wkole 6i the Taonui Riding, and j>art of -the Fitzher- , bert ■- Wding. /' The new electorate theref pr,e. extends .alpng the^cqast line the '^ngititei^i^yer'dnd /itilarid to the 'Tararua Ranges ; the northern ary being Rangitikei . to the iißrtiei n icorner of ffie :?i Ki ; dvig > i Hxtgt the 'nor tbl-eastern boundary^ the 'boundaries of the Oroua Riding, B6rou*gti of Feilding, and the railway line to Bunnytho'rpe^ continued on to the boundary of the .Taoniui Riding to the road Hn§^%eing '*ice' boundary of the Paltnerston North Borough produced thence by that rpad-Ene, and around-^©'4ieut^'Uu«i sides of Paimerston to Fitzherbert Bridge, thence south-earsH)y the road-Kne produced to the Tararua range j Mana>ieat'u, ; ■c6nfain ! ing^-ih# t^bo^ou^s of iJaimerstbn 'N. cand^Feilding, a&i-the town districts tHalcombe, the riding of Ashhurst, and parts of the ridings of Waituna, Taoaui, Fitzherbert, and Kiwitea. The alterations in the old lelec&rate. iareothat; theijsbnthem'lialf lot Fitzherbert .Riding, the greatest ijfarjt of ■ ; sapnui , Riding, sind/ipattf of Oroua Ridioglhetyev.been cat off and added to Foxton, also the part of *v7aituna riding- between Halcombe and the Kangitikei Kiver has been addqdj f^itheg ,[^i^apgjiak^^^storate. The boundaries of the new electorate are, on the south.— ridings of Oroua and Taonui to road-line, being pro,ducja<m boundary of fchepce by that roadih'ne and around the south and east sideajifjfche borough to Fitaherbert Bridge, and by road-line m other ; - .are /. the Range, woua river, and road^fiiw^/ running across from Taonui Biding past Halcombe to the old electoral boundary of Rangitikei^ There W>ve ; teen taken from Rangitikei the ridings of Okakapu and Wangaehu,(ineluding the iown district of Liethbridge) and Makphany,^idt^of which .have been add^oT to tne new" Waitotara electorrate;; := Part oi^aitoa Kidin^b6tiieen the Rangitikei river? ; and t iHaieoinbe ihagffob.eeii «jadded to the. Rangitikei relecjo^fe. ,wMeh> inoi^ ... contains' <the jxidjngs pi.^angi^ ttti .GU^%-Bire*a, Maungaraupi, Parakaretw, iand of Waituna and_Kiwitea ; also the borough of Marton. and town district; of Bulls. Tble new electorate is 'bbundedionthe nertb: by the Rangitikei county boundary, east by the Ruabine range and Oroua jriyer.fto. near^ I'eildingj. thence (by the .old, , to tow^ jdistrici; JheMe^ around .^e;Vest «^q of t^| a dlstoCT i hja u jboj^aiy of the Oroua JEooing ; thence in a northeasterly direction along 1 the 'eastern boundary of "Tidings of Okakapu, Waligaeliiujr.aiid Makohau, to the county boundary; thence by boundary to c the starililig' point. The Wanganui old electorate only contained "ihe'- borough of Wahgafcui. The «new efectbrate; ib addition the ridings 'O& Wesfcmere and Brunswick; also Caatlecliffe, and on th» eaßt ? Bide' ol^He^river a strip along the bank between the Awaraa and Kukutu streams, including the front line of sec^ons'-an'd townships 1 of Canipbllltown andiiEastown. ■> '-- •- - The old electorate of Waitotara has >be©n enlarged by addition of the Adings of including Lethbridge Town District,- Otakapn, and and^y the upper VVangaehu Riding in the^Wanganui CJouu^y and;by part of me Waverlej' "Kding, also by Patea; Borough aad the "town district of Wav^r"m&. diinpisned; by Wdstmere^tid; Brunswick- 'Eidings tod a strip along the east -bank of lie Wanganui 7Wyej v l4ciudittg Oampbelttownjaad :Ba>town, being added to < the Wanganui electorate, excluding Wanganui. The boun.darjes, of tijepnew Waitotara .electorate *f£te*.— uti th'ef north; the r "3iHfr'isarallc4 of latitude (thy -old .^provincial*- boundaVy) ; on tibe east ;the[ suojmit olthe Eaimanawa range, the counties of Hawke's Bay, r Eangjtikei,, tp. the.r^ding of vMakohaa ; {hence by tie u e^tern'boun6laries'"bf that riding and 1 thtf' Wangaehu akd Okakapu ridingßto the ocean; on the south-west by the ocean 'to the^mouth^ of- the Patea Eayer. Tn'ence^ around the. borough so as to include it; on- the north-east by the PaJe^^Ei^e^ Jlihtt'jSq^nfcy .'boundary, and file upp.eT.part of .lite "Wanganui. Biver to the'stertingjyint^ \ T T "