SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 176, 20 April 1940, Page 8

SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS

<> Procedure Outlined HOUSEHOLDERS’ MEETINGS ON* MONDAY The biennial election of school committees in the Wellington Education Board’s district will take place at householders’ meetings on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. In districts where in the preceding year the average attendance was less than 241, nominations closed with the committee chairman on the seventh day before the election, but nominations may also be made at the meeting on Monday night. In districts where the average attendance in the preceding year exceeded 240, nominations closed with the committee chairman at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 15, and nominations at these places cannot be received at the meeting. Every claimant for a vote at a school committee election or a candidate must, on inquiry by the chairman, furnish reasonable evidence of qualification. A householder, within the meaning of the Education Act is:— (a) Every adult male or female person who for the period of three months next before the day of election has resided m any dwellinghouse within the school district as owner or tenant thereof; (b) The father, wherever resident, or it he be dead or absent from New Zealand, the guardian or other person, wherever resident, who has the actual custody, ot any child attending any public school situated within such district; (e) Every adult holder of a miner s right who, not being an alien, has for the period of three months next before the day of election resided in the school district, provided such district is situated within a mining area as defined by “The Mining Act, 1908”; (d) The husband or wife of any person referred to in paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) hereof. The Education board has been advised that: — A temporary shelter is not a dwelling within the meaning of the Act. A lodger or boarder is not a householder, but a tenant of part of a house and paying rent for three months or more before the election of a householder. Five members are to be elected where the average attendance of all the schools under the committee’s control was not more than 100; seven members for 101 to 200; nine members for more than 200. Should less than the required number be nominated, those duly nominated shall be declared elected, and the balance will be approved by the board; but recommendation of suitable householders to till the vacancies should be forwarded to the board as soon as possible after the meeting. The board has decided that if a quorum of members be present, the first meeting of the committee shall be held the same evening, after tin: nteeting of householders, to elect chairman and secretary. 'Three form a quorum for a committee of five members, four for a committee of seven, and five for a committee of nine.