THE UNIVERSITY
ELECTION METHODS PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Feb. 21. The Elections Committee recommended to the New Zealand University Council this morning that the system of proportional representation be given a further trial land that the method of counting votes be that in the third schedule of the Legislaive Council Act. 1914, but that voters be requested to arrange in order of preference the whole of the candidates. The committee further recommended that the same system be adopted for (fa.) tho election of members of the Adamedic Boarci by the professional; (a) the election of members of the University Entrance Board by the principal of the schools.
The recommendations were adopted. Mr A. E. Flower gave notice of motion that the University Entrance Board be requested to consider the whole subject of matriculation and entrance scholarship examinations with reference to (1) standard, (2) syllabus, (3) system of marking, (4) accrediting by means of leaving certificates, fand to forward its recommendations to the University Council through the Academic Board.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 7
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