PUBLIC AND SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18369, 30 April 1925, Page 10

PUBLIC AND SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

TO IBS EDITOB <W "THE PBESS." Sir ; —l crave enlightenment on two or three points which puzzled a number of people who attended the householders' meeting in a country district on Monday evening. A man and his wife, living with the latter's mother, but neither owning nor renting the property, and having no children attending school, both voted. Is this in order? Also is it.possible for a man and his wife living in a neighbouring district with a child attending the school in that district to vote at this householders' meeting? A third question, and I have done. May a member of a school committee be employed by that committee to do work in the school grounds, and receive payment for that work? —Yours, etc., P.B.N.

April 27th, 1925. » [ (1) The man and wife living with, the latter's mother were not eligible to vote. The mother was the owner and tenant of the property, and the man and wife were in the position of boarders, who would not have a vote. (2) If a man has a child attending any school he can vote and be elected to a school committee anywhere, and the wife always possesses the qualifications of her husband. (3) A member of a school committee can do work for the committee, and be paid for it, with the exception of clerical work—that is to say, a member cannot act as a paid clerk.—Ed. "The Press."]

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