TAKING THE CENSUS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 459, 17 February 1933, Page 4

TAKING THE CENSUS

A. F.

MONCUR.

(To the Editor). Sir, — At the outset I wish to congratulate the "Morning Post" for its timely leading article in to-day's issue. To its readers in this district the present anomalous defining of the electoral boundarieSr of the Bay of Plenty, Tauranga and Rotorua electorates has been clearly put. No reasonable excuse for the delay in taking the census,' which is now nearly two years overdue has been put forward by the Government and indeed it might be fairly stated that any expenses ineurred in that connection would at any rate be circulated inside New Zealand. Without wishing to cast reflection on ,any members of Parliament I maintain that this dis- 1 trict is suffering in direct representation because of its isolated position in the Bay of Plenty electorate. and its lack of community of interest with the East Coast district. Again, where is the commufiity interest between the Waimana Valley and Tauranga or, in the. Rotorua electorate, between Ruatoki and Karapiro. Certainly electoral boundaries must start and end, but the extraordinary sandwiching in of the three abovementioned electorates is a revelation. On a population basis, the North Island is certainly due for at least one more eonstituency, I would advoeate following the lead initiated by the "Mornirig Post" to press for a census and to make every effort to have this district more favourably situated politically than it is at present. — I am,

Whakatane, Feb. 16.