During the second session (from 7 July to 15 September 1862)[1] of the 3rd Parliament, the Representation Act, 1862 [2] was passed.
Clause 9 of the Act read:[3] The existing two members of the City of Dunedin shall thenceforth, as long as they retain their seats, be respectively members of the district of Dunedin and suburbs North and Dunedin and suburbs South, in manner following, that is to say, the earliest elected member shall be a member for the district of Dunedin and suburbs North, and the last elected member shall be a member for the district of Dunedin and suburbs South.The first elected member was Thomas Dick, but he resigned from the City of Dunedin electorate during 1863.
[5] Both members served until Parliament was dissolved on 27 January 1866.
At that time, the City of Dunedin electorate was re-established.
The Dunedin electorates of Caversham, Port Chalmers and Roslyn were all first established in 1866.