Riding

:This article is about the riding as a unit of local government and as an electoral district; for usage of the more common homonym, a form of the verb to ride, see horse and related articles such as riding animal.

New Zealand

Ridings existed in rural New Zealand until the popularisation of the automobile with the improvement of roads, and the concurrent urban drift. Then (c. {{drilldown|Timeline_of_New_Zealand_history|1950s}}) the ridings were merged into a larger {{drilldown2|county|council}}, which in the {{drilldown|Timeline_of_New_Zealand_history|1990s}} were merged into regional councils. In towns the equivalent administrative unit was called a borough council.

Related Topics:
Urban drift - Borough

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