THE REPRESENTATION QUESTION.
TREND OF POPULATION. (Special to Times.). WELLINGTON, August 22. An instance of the effect of tlio census in adjusting .the representation of the people in Parliament is afforded by tho figures relating to the North and South Islands; for successive census Wears. The electoral districts are >a, population basis, and tho members at tho different censuses was: North Island. South Island. 1891 30 40 1901 34 30 1906 38 35 The districts have been again defined on tlie basis of the population as shown by the census taken in April 1906 with the result that the South Island will return only 35 members, as against- 41 for the North Island.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2167, 24 August 1907, Page 1
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113THE REPRESENTATION QUESTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2167, 24 August 1907, Page 1
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