ELECTORAL BOUNDARY REVISION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 15, 8 April 1927, Page 7

ELECTORAL BOUNDARY REVISION

PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The revision of the electoral boundaries over which there was a great deal of discussion in the House of Representatives last session, and about which more will doubtless be heard during the coming session, is expected to commence very shortly. The personnel of the commission has been announced by the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister in Charge of the Electoral Department, as follows: North Island: Messrs James Trounson, John Strauchon, Kenneth Montrose Graham, Commissioner of Crown Lands for South Auckland, William David Armit, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Taranaki, William Thomson Neill, Surveyor General. South Island: Messrs Harman Reeves, Harry Quane, William Stewart, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Canterbury, William Theodore Morpeth, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Westland, and Richard Seymour Galbraith, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Otago. There are 76 European constituencies, and boundaries are revised after each census with the object of securing as near as possible an equal representation. In 1926 the census showed the North Island to possess 63.39 per cent, of the population, and the South 36.61. It is expected that on the population basis the South should lose one seat and the North gain at least one.