EDUCATION BOARD ELECTIONS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 12

EDUCATION BOARD ELECTIONS

—*■— I 1 2000 Committeemen To Vote Today More than 2000 school commits members throughout Canterbury Westland will go to the polls fodnv for the Canterbury Education bSS elections —probably the biggest mi? 1 side those for Parliament and 1 bodies. There are about 300 school commit I tees in the Canterbury board’s | trict, each with a minimum of I members and a maximum of nine de I pending on the size of the school Each I member is entitled to vote, paner I being distributed and returned in moS I cases by- the committee chairman. I Some of the schools are remote and fi although all voting must be done tn | day and bear today’s postmark, sii 1 days are allowed for the return of I papers, and votes will be counted nnv! 1 Wednesday. This year the whole board is retr 1 ing to permit the introduction of*. | revised grouping of wards. Normaßv I half the board retires by rotation J I Thirty-one nominations have been I received for 15 seats, and southern I central (Mid-Uanterbury) is the only I ward where there will be no election I only two nominations being received 1 Most interest is evident in the north- I ern central ward, which covers the I area from Banks Peninsula across fo I the Southern Alps. Eight persons have I been nominated for two seats. Largely. I attended public meetings have heard I the candidates for this ward speak st I Darfield and at Ladbrooks. In both I cases there was free discussion I country needs of school buildings and I other amenities. There are seven nominations for the I two West Coast seats, four for the hro 1 North Canterbury seats, four for the I two South Canterbury seats, and six I for the five Christchurch urban seats I The Canterbury Education Board I has never before received so many i nominations, nor has there been such I wide interest in school affairs. 1