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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 1115, 18 April 1891, Page 3

The Education Department having declined to give an official interpretation of the term " householder," as used in the Education Act, the Education Board submitted the question to their legal advisers, who give the opinion that the qualification of a householder under section 50 is riot affected by the School Committees Election Act, 1890, consequently no person resident out of the school-district is eligible as a committee man. They say it is clear that no owner or tenant of a dwelling house out of the school district is eligible as an elector in respect of that qualification, only in the case of a person not being an owner or tenant of a dwelling house, but being the parent or guardian or person having the actual custody of a* child attending any State school situated within such district, the case is not quite so clear. If the person and child are both resident'within the school district he is undoubtedly qualified both to.vote and to be elected. As a resident without the district the right to vote will depend on the question whether the child in repect of whom he claims a qualification has a legal right to attend the school. If a child is resident in the school district the parent having the custody of such child is I qualified whether residing in the school district or not, but if the child lives out of the district they are of opinion that the parent or guardian or other" person as aforesaid is not qualified to vote. Temporary absence during the week does not deprive a .person of his right to vote for the school district in ' which hie permanent dwelling.!* situated.