In 1902, changes to the country quota affected the three-member electorates in the four main centres.
[1] In the 1902 election, polling booths were in Feilding, Halcombe, Kimbolton, Ruahine, Pohangina, Ashhurst, and other places.
Frank Lethbridge won the 1902 election against Arthur Henry Tompkins.
Guthrie joined the Reform Party when it formed in 1909 and held the Oroua electorate until he retired in 1925.
[5] John Gordon Eliott of the Reform Party succeeded Guthrie in the 1925 election and represented Oroua for one parliamentary term, as he was defeated by John Cobbe of the United Party in the 1928 election.