ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES.
THE QUOTA FIXliiD. One of the most interesting points discussed by members of Parliament, now they are reassembling, is that of electoral boundaries. Southern members do not appear to be so anxious about the geography of their seats as they were last session, when big changes, including the disappearance of at least two South Island constituences, loomed over them, prompting suggestions that the law ought to be changed so as to give more stability to the position. Now the southerners are more cheerful. It has leaked out that the quota the number of electors who will be grouped to form a constituency— has been fixed by the Representation Commission at 15, 164, and that the North Island will gain one seat, instead of the expected brace.
NEW AUCKLAND ELECTORATE
The new seat will be somewhere in the neighbourhood of Auckland, according to the best informed parliamentarians, as it is around that city that the bulK of the increased population i 3 to be found. In coming to their decision upon the amount of the quota, the Representation Commissioners had to make normal addilions to the country population, in accordance with the plan laid down in the Legislature Act, and this proceeding operated in favour of the South Island rather than the North, because of its greater urban population. Now that the quota is known on sufficiently good authority, it is interesting to compare it with the population of some of the biggest electorates in both islands :■ — NORTH ISLAND. Wellington Suburbs 19,689 Eden 19,479 Taumarunui 19,215 Hawke's Bay 18,695 Waikato 17,820 Grey Lynn 17,083 Waitemata 16,179 Gisborne 15,798 Wanganui 15,656 Auckland We3t 15,214 Hutt 15,212 SOUTH ISLAND. Dunedin South 16,822 Avon 15,631 Cbristchurch North 15,225 Riccarton 15,171 All the seats enumerated above have a population in excess of the quota. The southern seats with fewest people are Tuapeka with 9501, Bruce with 9852, and Wakatipu which has 10,477
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 382, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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319ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 382, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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