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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13382, 3 April 1912, Page 3

ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES. TN accordance with the provisions oi A "Tho Education Act, ~1908/' and amendments thereto, -it is hereby notified that meetings of Householders will be held in all the School Districts within the Education District of Nelson, at 8 p.m., on MONDAY, the 22nd day oi April, 1912, for the election of School | Committees. The meetings will bo held in tho principal school buildings in each district, except in tho following places: Nelson, in the Provincial Hall; Hope, in the Rauzau School; Bright water, in the old Girls' School; Collingwood, in the Institute. Where the avenge attendance of any school or-schools under the Committee Of a School District has not for the preceding school years exceeded twentylive children, the Householders are callod upon to elect a committee of FIVE members; similarly where the ~average attendance has exceeded twenty-five and has not oxeee-ded two hundred, the householders shall elect a committee of SEVEN members; and where tho average attendance has exceeded two hundred tho householders shall elect a committee of NINE .members. Housel'ioldors may send in writing to the chairman of their School Committee j (or in cases where-there is no committee, to the Commissioner), to be delivered before 8 n.m. on MONDAY the 15th April, 1012, tho names of pei-sons, boing i-csidont householders,'nominated by them to 80-r\^ on the School Committee for the; yeor next ensuing. Each such uoTuiiiation must- be signed by the perron nominated and the 7>roposer. and must bo in the l'orin or to the effect of tho ninth schedule to the above-named Act. Nominations may also be made- at tho mceciiiL's of householders as provided | for in Section il3 «»' the Act. ! Tl'o parents and guardians only of the ' pupils attending schools other than j thoso iv school districts will meet on i tho f.-iiup date to elect committees of five members. N. R. WILLIAMS, Sfif/ctarv. .Hoard of Education, i Nalsnn, March '-'Bth. 1912. 1107