SCHOOLS AS BOOTHS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 80, 16 November 1911, Page 6

SCHOOLS AS BOOTHS.

WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD’S PROTEST. (Per Press Association.) Feilding, November 16. The Wanganui Education Board’s objection to the use of so many schools for polling booths has reached another stage. The Chief Electoral Officer states that 110 schools and 100 teachers in the Wanganui education district are required for the electors. Of these, 40 schools and 25 teachers are required in the Oroua electorate alone, where there are only five other places engaged as polling booths. Mr Mansfield insists on the use of schools 'and the Board’s chairman is prepared to resist any attempt to use the schools where other buildings are available, and ho specifics fifteen places in the Oroua electorate where, to bis personal knowledge such is the ease. Ho also points out that they took teachers’ services without the consent of the Board, which is not likely to be given where schools can bo kept open even in temporary buildings. The probabilities point to interesting developments unless a compromise can lie arranged.