THE NEW ELECTORATES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3008, 24 October 1891, Page 2

THE NEW ELECTORATES.

At yesterday's meeting of the Waikato County Council the following letter was read from the Mayor of Cambridge dealing with the question of the unsatisfactory division of the Waikato and Waipa Electorates. After some discussion, the suggestion proposed was agreed to, with the addition that the Borough of Cambridge and Hamilton East Bhould be included in the Waikato Electorate, and Hamilton West in the Waipa Electorate :—

Borough Council Chambers, Cambridge 20th October, 1891.—T0 the Chairman of Waikato County Council, Hamilton: Dear Sir,—You will of course have seen in the papers the report of the Representation Commissioners as to the proposed new electorates and have probably particularly noticed the proposed districts of Waikato and Waipa. These two districts appear to some of us here to have been inconveniently apportioned, and without due consideration having been given to local situations and community of interests in the several counties and ridings, etc., included in them. It is thought, that a much more satisfactory division of the two districts would be as follows :—Waikato to cotrprise Waikato Countv, Piako County, and Kast and West Taupo; together with so much of the position of Manukau County at present proposed as part of Waikato, as may be needed to give the electoral district its proper quota of population. Waipa to comprise Waipa County. Raglan County, the portion of Kawhia County lying North of 38'301eg.. and so much of the portion of Manukau County mentioned abovo as is not required for the Waikato district. The above arrangement would obviate the apparent absurdity of the Waipa County coming in as a large wedge hetween parts of Raglan and Waikato Counties, both included by the commissioners in one electoral district, and the no less apparent absurdity of the Waikato County coming right between the Waipa and Piako Counties, both also included in one district, whilst it would associate the Raglan County with Waipa, to which it is much more attached by mutual interests than it is to Waikato, and would associate Piako with Waikato, to which the same remark applies. I have been desired to ascertain the views of your Council as representing the county as to the above suggested alterations in the apportionment of the two districts. If you have an early meeting, will you be good enough to lay this matter before the Council, and let me know what is thought about it, If you are not having a meeting soon, then, as the matter will not admit of delay (since the commissioners sit on the 10th November to hear objections, and a great deal will be required to be arranged between now and then), can yon of your own knowledge inform me how your Council may be expected to view it, or would you please to confer with such of the councillors as you would be able to, and so ascertain their views. Your reply at your earliest convenience will be esteemed a favour by, dear Sir, yours truly, John H. Puikstley, Mayor.