THE H.B ELECTORATE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 6

THE H.B ELECTORATE

Little Change in Roll Numbers territorial adjustment Though the boundaries of the Hawke's Bay electorate will be considerably altered if the recommendations now announced are given effect to, it is not anticipated that there will be any material change in the number of electors. Hawke's Bay would lose three strips of district and gain one, in the proposed territorial changes. The three areas are all rural districts, with scatteyed population. On the other hand, the gain would be the Wairoa borough, where there is a comparatively denser population. Asked what effect the changes would have on the electoral roll, Mr. W. M. Will; registrar for Hawke's Bay, said that nothing would be done in Ihe meantime pending the approval of the recommendationa to Parliament. When that was obtained, then it would be necessary to purge the roll of those names of electors affected and transfer them to the, adjoining electoral district' s roll. * This would be mainiy routine work with the tiling system, but he added that a certain amount of investigatory work would be necessary to ascertain upon whicb side of the road the electors Uved in the boundary roads. "Though territorially we lmve lost three districts and gained one, and consequently the electorate is smaller, I am not anticipating any great reductlon in the actual roll number," said Mr. Will. The total number of electors when the last roll was compiled was just over 13,000 for Hawke's Bay.