ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES.
REDISTRIBUTION OP SEATS. The fact that it is proposed shortly to redistribute. Parliamentary seats upon the basis' of the last census, notwithstanding the presence in Wellington of many soldiers and relatives upon'the night the census was taken, is exercising the minds of Southern members of Parliament, more than one of whom is confronted with the unpleasant vision of seeing his seat disappear. Dr. Thacker (Christchurch East) gave notice to ask the Minister of Internal Affairs whether, in the assessment of the last census return, and in view of the redistribution of Parliamentary seats, he reckoned on the following facts: —(1) That on the night of the census an expeditionary reinforcement was leaving Wellington and some 2,000 extra people were in Wellington, and (2) that the persons on Somes Island were added to the Wellington list of census names 1 ?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1755, 4 September 1917, Page 3
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141ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1755, 4 September 1917, Page 3
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