AFTER THE CENSUS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 23 May 1911, Page 4

AFTER THE CENSUS

KLMCTOK AL UOUNDARIES. Wellington, Monday. Tlioutrli the census total is about two hundred thousand oil' the iimil tally, it Ims become evident that the North Island will take at least two seats from the South as a result of the How of population northwards since the l!ll»5 census. The Kepresentation Commissioners will probably lie ready to commence their re-arrangement of electoral boundaries in six weeks' time. When they sat in I!WS, the populations of the respective Islands was: North 47ti,J32, South 411,(141. The Commissioner*, in allocating districts for the seventy-six European members are entitled to add 25 per cent, to the rural population, and when this was done, the total divided by seventy-six wa* 13,400. This year, the quota is likely to be at least 2000 higher for each constituency. Anticipating that the tendency in the South Island will be to increase the size of the present constituencies in view of the larger increase in population in the North Island, Mr. John Duncan, member for Wairau, hopes to see that «ortion of the Marlborough province which was included in the Nelson electorate at the last revision of boundaries, returned to his electorate, with which it is in his opinion more naturally associated. A petition to that effcet is already in circulation, and will be placed before ihe Representation Commissioners when they are ready to oroceed with their task.