EDUCATION ACT ANOMALY.
HOUSEHOLDER COULD SIT ON SEVERAL COMMITTEES. By repeal of the definition of “ resident householder” and the omission of the word “resident” where it occurred in the old Act, the Education Amendment Act, 1919, makes the qualifications entitling a person to vote and to be elected to the committee in a school district identical. That is to say, that a parent or guardian sending some of his children to one school and others to another school, would be eligible to vote at both elections and to sit on both committees, the only bar to this possibility and its multiplication being the fact that the personal presence of electors is required, and the election meetings are commonly fixed for the same hour. The Otago Education Board received this information to-dav through legal opinion obtained by the Canterbury Board, and passed a resolution expressing' dissent from amendments which created such a defect in the Act.
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Evening Star, Issue 17279, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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155EDUCATION ACT ANOMALY. Evening Star, Issue 17279, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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