EDUCATION BOARD.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 7

EDUCATION BOARD.

Procedure to Be Adopted in Voting.

Although papers in connection with the voting for new members of the Canterbury Education Board will be opened on Thursday next, the Returning Officer (Mr C. R. Kirk) will not be in a position to declare the new members elected until the following week.

This position has been brought about by a discrepancy which has crept into the schedule setting out the procedure to be adopted in education board elections. In one part of the schedule it is stipulated that seven are to be allowed for the reception of voting papers, and elsewhere it is stated that votes shall only be informal if they fail to reach the returning officer before the fourteenth day. In connection with this discrepancy, Kirk has received advice from the Director of Education (Mr N. Lambourne) to the effect that he can open the papers after the seventh day, but he cannot declare the result unless he is satisfied that there are no more papers to come to hand. Steps were being taken, said Mr Lambourne, to ask Parliament to amend the regulations with the object of bringing them all into line.

The election of fresh members of tne board has become necessary owing o the fact that half the representatives of various wards retire by eflluxion of time on August 8 next.