Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3199

THE BOARD.

13. All meetings of the Board shall be held in Wellington.
14. Ordinary meetings shall be held quarterly on the third Tuesday in January, April, July, and October.
15. Special meetings may be held at such times as the Board considers necessary.
16. At all meetings the Chairman shall have a deliberative as well as a casting vote.
17. The Board shall keep a correct record of the business transacted at its meetings.
18. Every member of the Board shall receive notice of the business to be transacted at the ordinary meetings at least one week prior to the date of any such meeting, and a notice concerning the business to be transacted at any special meeting at least three days prior to the holding of such meeting.
19. Members of the Board shall not be entitled to or be paid any remuneration for their services as members, but shall, whilst travelling on the business of the Board, be entitled to travelling-allowance in accordance with the scale prescribed by the regulations for the time being in force relating to officers travelling on the public service: Provided that in the case of elected members the minimum daily allowance (exclusive of cost of transport) shall be 10s.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

20. The Secretary for Education shall be the Returning Officer for the election of the elective members of the Board.
21. There shall be prepared by the Returning Officer two separate alphabetical voting-lists, to wit,—
    (a.) One of all contributors resident in the North Island;
    (b.) One of all contributors resident in the South Island, in which shall be included contributors resident in Stewart Island or in the Chatham Islands:
    and such lists shall be open to inspection by contributors at all reasonable times.
22. The Returning Officer shall from time to time add to the respective lists the names of all contributors who become entitled to be enrolled thereon, and shall remove therefrom the names of all persons who cease to be so entitled:
    Provided that the validity of any election shall not be questioned on the ground that a name wrongly appears in a list or has been omitted therefrom.
23. For every election the voting-lists shall be closed on the day on which nominations close, and shall remain closed until the election is completed.
24. Any contributor may, by notice addressed to the Returning Officer posted or delivered so as to reach the Returning Officer not less than seven days before the lists are closed, object to any voting-list on some specified ground, and the Returning Officer shall forthwith after the receipt of any such objection inquire into and dispose of the same.
25. Every extraordinary election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Returning Officer, being not later than the fiftieth day after the vacancy occurs.
26. Not less than forty days before any election the Returning Officer shall by advertisement in the New Zealand Gazette, or otherwise, publicly notify in respect of the election—
    (a.) The day on which the election will be held, and the hour at which the poll will be closed;
    (b.) The number of vacancies;
    (c.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations, being not more than twenty days before the day of election.
27. No person shall be eligible for election unless he is nominated in writing by at least two contributors.
28. Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:—
    The Returning Officer (being the Secretary for Education, Wellington).
    I, [Name and address], being a contributor to the Teachers’ Superannuation Fund resident in the [North or South] Island, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Teachers’ Superannuation Board at the election to be held on the day of , 190 .
    [Signature.]
    Dated this day of , 190 .