ELECTORAL AREAS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 8

ELECTORAL AREAS.

FIXING THE BOUNDARIES. WORK STARTS NEXT WEEK. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 30. Arrangements have been made for the electoral boundary representation commissions to make a start next week with the revision of the electoral boundaries of the 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, (Hon. H. G. R. Mason) announced to night that |':ey were to meet in Wellington as a joint commission on July 6. Following this meeting the commissions would sit separately and proceed with the work of adjusting 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 separate commissions they will then proceed to fix the provisional boundaries,in the two islands.

The undertaking is expected to occupy approximately three weeks. Sittings will be held in Wellington but the South Island commission will later visit Christchurch to hear objections to the provisional boundaries fixed for the southern electorates.