MURITAI SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 13

MURITAI SCHOOL

.COMMITTEE' ELECTION

VALIDITY DISPUTED

.. : Three ..unsuccessful candidates for seats on the Muritai School Committee, Messrs. E. J.Appleton, S. J. Carr, and J. E. Hoyles, are disputing the validity of the election held in the local schoolroom on April 30, and have forwarded a request to the secretary of the Wellington Education Board for anotheelection to be held. The protest is made; on .the grounds that no list of candidates was displayed or published as,required by the Education Act, 1914; that no ballot box was provided or used in taking the ballot; that blank pieces of paper were issued indiscriminately to each and every person present; that the meeting was erroneously instructed that any vote cast for lesa lhan nine or more than nine candidates would be invalid; that the chairman did not satisfy himself that those issued with voting .papers were duly qualified householders or that voting papers were in the proper form and duly returned to a ballot box; and that the total number of those present was not known and thus no. proper check on the voting could possibly bo made.

;- It is proposed to hold a public protest meeting in the Crown Theatre; Eastbourne, next Monday evening. • The committee elected at the meeting of April 30 comprised Messrs A 7? •"• Burch, T. Carroll, AY. L. Comrie ' w' " Dick, S. F. Ksher, L. A. Golding, V. P. .Haughton, D. N. Isaacs, and W - Wilson.

In the absence of the chairman of the board (Mr. T. Forsyth") and the secretary (Mr. E. S. Hylton), who arc out of town, a "Post" representative addressed an inquiry to the deputy chairman (Mr. J. J. Clark), who said that the executive of the board would no doubt determine the question at its meeting next Monday afternoon.