THE NEW ELECTORATES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3733, 20 December 1906, Page 3

THE NEW ELECTORATES.

The reports of the Representation Commissioners which have now been completed, recommend that there should he forty-one electorates in the North Island and thirty-five in the South Island. This adjustment gives the North Island six more seats than the South. Previously each had thirty-eight scats, the three seats gained by the North Island are: —

Wellington suburbs, comprising Karori, Onslow, Miramar, and Johnsonville. Taumarnnui, comprising portion of the Waikato and Wanganui watersheds, Kawhia, Waimarino, and North Taranaki, including the borough of Waitara. Tauranga, comprising portions of the neighbouring electorates and the boroughs of Tauranga, Te Aroha and Cambridge.

The old Waiapu electorate has had its boundaries drawn in by reason of the increase ef population in the borough of Gisborne, which now gives its name to the electorate. The name Hawera also disappears. The borough of Hawera goes into-the Patca electorate, which consequently loses a great deal of its outlying area. The adjusted district, which takes the name of Stafford, includes the borough of Stratford (formerly in Patea) and Inglewood and takes off from the old Patea electorate the wide area of - backblocks country stretching hack through Whangamomona and Ohura to tho Tangarakau river. The Newtown electorate has been somewhat clipped owing to increase of population and is now called Wellington South.

Otaki comprises the county of Horowhenua, portion of the Awahou riding of Manawatu county south of Foxton, and is bounded ou the north by the Wellington-Palmerston railway, the Manawatu bridge road and the Palmer-ston-Pahiatua road. It includes the borough of Levin and the islands of Kapiti and Mana,