✨ Education Proclamation
THE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
OF THE
PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature hereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. H. EYES,
Superintendent.
VOL. VII.] TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1866. [No. 118.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Henry Eyes, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand.
In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, Session XI., No. 5, clause 17, I hereby notify that I have appointed Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of January, at 11 a.m., as the day on which meetings shall be held, at the places and for the districts hereinafter specified for the election of Local Committees for the purposes of the said Act: and the said elections shall be conducted in the manner following:
A Chairman having been appointed, the ratepayers in each district shall proceed to elect three resident householders to form the local Committee of that district; provided that if there be more candidates proposed than the number to be elected, the chairman shall call for a show of hands separately in favor of each candidate, and after such show of hands shall declare the persons on whom the election has fallen. If, however, any candidate or two ratepayers shall demand a poll, a polling shall take place on the same day, and the chairman of such meeting shall preside at such polling; the voting to commence at 1 p.m. and close at 4 p.m. on the same day; and the mode of voting shall in all other respects be conducted in the same manner as is provided for the election of members of the Provincial Council, and the chairman of such meetings shall report in writing to the Superintendent the names of the persons elected to form the Local Committees.
For the district of Picton,
The School House.
For the district of Blenheim,
The School House.
For the district of Renwick,
The School House.
For the district of Wairau Valley,
The School House.
For the district of Havelock,
The Court House.
For the district of Maratapawa,
Tarrant’s Accommodation House.
For the district of Spring Creek,
The School House.
For the district of Kaikoura,
Charleston’s Accommodation House.
Given under my hand, at the Superintendent’s Office, Blenheim, this fourth day of January, 1866.
W. H. EYES,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
JAMES BALFOUR WEIR,
Provincial Secretary.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1866, No 118
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🎓 Proclamation for Local Committee Elections under Education Act
🎓 Education, Culture & Science4 January 1866
Education Act, Local Committees, Elections, School Districts, Marlborough
- William Henry Eyes, Superintendent
- James Balfour Weir, Provincial Secretary