SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 249, 18 March 1916, Page 9

SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

The time for the election of School Committees is once more at hand, and all who are interested in the representation of women on public bodies should prepare to take what steps they can to secure the placing of women representatives on the Committees, by the nomination of suitable women as candidates, and the arousing of interest in all who have the privilege of voting on the occasion. This is the more necessary because it i only by means of a larger represent: .on on School Committees that women can hope to gain representation on Education Boards, the members of which are elected by the Committees. The elections will take place, a usual, towards the end of April (probably the last Monday), and in the usual way at householders’ meetings in the various districts, except in any district that was placed last year under the new regulations. By the new Act, the election of School Committees will take place at the same time and 111 the same manner as those for Mayor, Councillors, Hospital Boards, etc., once in two years, the vote being extended to all whose names are on the Municipal Roll. This applies only to school districts having a population of over 8000; in all small districts the annual election at householders’ meetings will still continue. So far as my information goes, Nelson City was the only one able last year to take advantage of the new regulation, but the. Unions in large districts will do well to make quite sure upon the matter. Ihe elections this year will therefore be practically the same as before throughout the Dominion, the new method not being introduced till 1917. When it becomes general, it should give a much better chaDce in the larger districts of securing the return of women candidates, the voting power being so much extended; and it would be well during the present year if all U nions able to do so would begin in good time the work of seeing that the names of all women who are eligible are placed upon the Municipal Roll. MARION JUDSON, N.Z. Supt. Good Citizenship Dept.