[9] Young remained the representative until the 1935 election, when he was defeated by Labour's Charles Barrell.
[10] Barrell in turn was defeated in the 1943 election by National's Frank Findlay, who died in office on 31 March 1945.
[11] Findlay's death caused the 1943 by-election, which was won by National's Hilda Ross.
[12] Ross died in office on 6 March 1959, and this caused the 1959 by-election, which was won by National's Lance Adams-Schneider.
Its eastern boundary was the Waikato River, but it incorporated much of the former Waipa electorate, extended to the Tasman Sea, and was thus more rural in nature.