Located in central Auckland, the electorate was considered a safe seat for the Labour Party in its eight years of existence.
The 1946 redistribution abolished the country quota, which had previously accorded 28% greater representation for rural electorates.
The 1941 New Zealand census had been cancelled due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movement into account.
It was centred on the suburb of Arch Hill, and included parts of Grey Lynn, Eden Terrace, Newton, and southern Ponsonby.
[5] Parry retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1951,[6] and died a year later on 27 November 1952.