NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2338, 5 July 1887, Page 2

NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

(RV TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION’). Wellington, Monday. The Representation Commissioners, with tlie object of informing those persons of the new electoral districts, which may not have access to the maps and technical description of tlie electoral boundaries, have caused to be prepared, tlie following general description of them, in tlio hope that they may enable every one to readily recognise within what electorate lie resides, or within which ho has the qualification to register as a voter. There have been many changes in tlie electoral boundaries, in adjusting the districts to the quota of population, resulting in tlie number of electorates in the North Island being increased by three, and in the Middle Island decreased by the same number. The numbers now being respectively 39 and 52, or in all 91 for the colony, the decrease in tlie Middle Island has been effected making one electorate less on the group of West Coast, Nelson, and Marlborough electorates, and two less in tho Canterbury and Otago group. In the North Island two additional electorates have been given to tho Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke’s Bay group of electoral districts, and one to the Auckland group. The alterations and adjustments induced by the changes have necessarily, so affected boundaries as to render some of tlie old names of electorates, no longer applicable or descriptive. The following names have therefore been discarded :—Auckland East, Wellington South, Wairarapa South, Wairarapa North, Picton, Waimoa, Stanmore, Coleridge, Wakanui, Geraldine, Moerako, and Waikouaiti. The names are Auckland Central, Ponsonby, Woodville. Mnsterton, Wairarapa, Wellington East, Wellington Sooth anff suburbs, Waimea, Picton, Linwood, Rangitata, Waihemo, and Waikara. The electorates, which remain as they were, are Auckland West, Napier, Nelson, Hokitika, Wairau, Christchurch North, Christchurch South, Dunedin Elast, Roslyn, and Wallace. The following is a description of the electoral district of Franklyn North, which has been extended northwards by the addition of the Tatnaki riding, and curtailed in tlie south by tho exclusion of the Papakura Town District, and that portion of the riding of Papakura, south of the road running across from the Wairoa post-office, to tho railway near the mouth of the Papakura stream. It now contains the riding of Tamaki West, Hawick, and the whole of Otaliuhu, except the narrow strip along tlie west side of the railway between the Papakura Town District,' and the mouth of the Papakura stream, it contains also the northern and eastern portions of Papakura riding.—Franklyn South has been increased by tlie Papakura town district and the southern portion of Papakura riding, also by the inclusion of the settlement of Miranda. It has been diminished in the south by tlie cutting off of Tuakau and the south-eastern portion of Pukeltolie riding, in tlie Pnkekohe parish, between the railway and the Waikato river, which has been added to tlie Waipa electorate.—Waipa is tho old electorate with tlie addition of Tuakau and the subtraction of Cambridge West, which has been added to Waikato, and of Tokaanu, which has been added to Tauranga.—Waikato has been increased by the addition of Cambridge West, and diminished by Te Arolia Town District and Te Arolia riding, both of which have been added to Tauranga ; also by the small settlement of Miranda added to Franklyn South. The boundaries are on the north by tlie electoral district of Franklyn South and the Firth of Thames, on the east by the Thames or Waihou river and native territory, on tlie south and west by tlie Waikato river, including Cambridge West.