ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 5

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

TO BE REVISED Start Next Week Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, July 1. Arrangements have been made for electoral boundary representation to make a start next week with the revision of electoral boundaries of seats in the House of Representatives. There are two commissions, one for the North Island and one for the South Island, and the Minister in charge of the electoral office, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, announced last night that they were to meet in Wellington as a joint commission on July 6. Following this meeting the commismissions will £ it separately and proceed with the work of adjusting the boundaries in the two islands. When the commissions meet next week as a joint, commission they will fix 'the quota and allot the number of seats to each island in accordance with the distribution of population revealed by the census last year. Sitting as two seperate commissions' they will then proceed to fix provisional boundaries in the two islands. The undertaking is expected to occupy about three weeks. Situn« will be held at Wellington, but the South Island commission will later visit Christchurch to hear objections to provisional boundaries fixed for the southern electorates.