Redistricting Webinar
A webinar hosted by Zone Director Jennifer Scott and Andrew Best from RISPPO is available here explaining the principles behind the Redistricting and how the proposals for the new districts have come about.
The new Northern region district will merge Districts 9910/9920/9930 (Pacific Islands, Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Waikato, East Coast and Hawkes Bay). It will have 2,800 members.
The new Southern region district will include Districts 9940 and 9999 (Taranaki, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Wairarapa, Kapiti/Horowhenua, Wellington and the South Island). It will have 2,560 members.
For NZ/PI, the Working Group considered a single district, 2 districts and 3 districts as possible options. The 2 district option was chosen as it gave it us the best possible member split for two stronger districts, enabled the Pacific Islands to retain their strong links with the northern clubs/districts and enabled the southern part of New Zealand to form a contiguous merged district with much stronger membership numbers.
While not cast in stone and feedback can be sent to brent.gerrard@outlook.com, it is expected that this recommendation will be presented to the RI Board at the RI Board meeting at the end of June 2026. In order to make the Board meeting, the proposal needs to be in the RI Board papers by the middle of May. Time for feedback is closing fast and any submissions received past the end of this week are unlikely to be considered.