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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1963, 20 December 1906, Page 2

The new boundaries for the Gisborne electorate, which we publish elsewhere, will cause no little surprise, and thoso who try to find a reason for the alterod delineations on the basis of convenience or community of interest will be sorely puzzled. Probably the Commissioners have never seen the country, and have therefore merely takeu the census returns and drawn lines on the map to include so many people on oao side or the other. Hitherto it has been called the Waiapu electorate, but with the YVaiapu district cut out and included in another constituency it must have been rechristened, though no information to that effect has come to hand. Three additional seats for the North Island and three lees for the South should have made it easy for the Commissioners to escape any blundering in the direction of cutting off rural districts from their natural centres ; but as far ss can bo seen at present no considerations of that kind have been regarded, tho main idea being to pack so many votes into each division like yarding sheep without proper classification.