1162
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Disestablishment of District High School at Hamilton, and Establishment of a High School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 29th March, 1911.

WHEREAS by virtue of the provisions of the Education Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Minister of Education, on the request of the Education Board of any district, may disestablish any district high school in such district with a view to establish a high school: And whereas the Education Board of the District of Auckland has applied to the said Minister to establish a high school at Hamilton, in the said district, and with a view thereto has requested him to disestablish the Hamilton West District High School: And whereas all conditions precedent required by the said Act to be observed and performed prior to the establishment of a high school under section 94 thereof have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, pursuant to such application as aforesaid, and in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the said Act, I, George Fowlds, Minister of Education, do hereby disestablish the said district high school at Hamilton West aforesaid as on the close of the 30th day of June, 1911, and I do establish thereat, as from the 1st day of July, 1911, a high school to be called “The Hamilton High School.”

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

Scheme for the Control of Hamilton High School (established 1911, under Section 94 of the Education Act, 1908).

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the Act”), and with the powers thereunder, I, George Fowlds, Minister of Education, do hereby approve of the following scheme for the Hamilton High School (hereinafter called “the school”), which is established under section 94 of the Act.

1. The school shall be controlled by a Board of Governors under the name of “The Board of Governors of the Hamilton High School” (hereinafter called “the Board”). The Board shall be a body corporate, shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal, and may acquire and hold lands, and sue and be sued, and may do and suffer all such things as corporate bodies may do and suffer.

2. There shall be nine Governors, of whom a group of three shall be appointed by His Excellency the Governor, a group of three by the Auckland Education Board, and a group of three shall be elected by the parents of the pupils.

3. The Governors appointed by the Auckland Education Board shall be appointed by a resolution of such Board, and the first appointment shall be made not later than the first week in the month of June, 1911.

4. In regard to the election of Governors by the parents of the pupils the following provisions shall apply:—

(1.) The first election shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Minister, and thereafter every such election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Board in accordance with this scheme.

(2.) The Returning Officer shall, in the case of the first election, be a person appointed by the Minister, but thereafter the Secretary to the Board of Governors shall be the Returning Officer.

(3.) For the purposes of the election of Governors by the parents of the pupils the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll, and shall enter therein the name, occupation, and address of every person qualified to be enrolled as a parent of a pupil of the school.

“Parent” means the father, if he be living, or, if not, the mother, or, if neither the father nor the mother be living, the guardian, of a pupil of the school.

A “pupil of the school” means, in the case of the first election, a pupil whose parent has expressed in writing the intention of enrolling him at the school, as provided by subsection (1) of section 94 of the Act, and thereafter a pupil whose name is on the school roll, and who has been in actual attendance at the school at any time within the three months immediately preceding the closing of the roll. The roll shall be closed at 5 o’clock on the fourteenth day next before the day on which any election is to be held, and shall continue to be closed until the election is completed.

(4.) The Returning Officer shall, by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the district, publicly notify, not less than fourteen days before each election—

(a.) The day and hour for the closing of the election;

(b.) The total number of candidates to be elected;

(c.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations.

(5.) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more parents entitled to vote for his election.

Each such person may nominate any number of candidates not exceeding the number to be elected.

(6.) Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:—

I, [Name and address], being a parent duly entered on the roll, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Board of Governors of the Hamilton High School at the election to be held on the day of

Dated this day of .

Candidate’s Consent, to be subscribed at foot of Nomination-paper.

I hereby consent to my nomination.

[Signature of candidate nominated.]

(7.) If the nomination-paper does not bear the written consent of the candidate nominated, such consent may be given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations are closed, and every nomination-paper shall be void in so far as concerns any candidate whose written consent is not duly given as aforesaid.

(8.) Nominations shall close at noon on the tenth day before the day of the election.

(9.) If the number of nominations received does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled, the Returning Officer shall forthwith declare the candidate or candidates so nominated to be duly elected. In all other cases he shall, as soon as the nominations are closed, prepare and post to each elector at his address as appearing on the roll a printed voting-paper containing in alphabetical order of surnames a list of all the duly nominated candidates for whom such parent is entitled to vote; and such voting-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:—

VOTING-PAPER for use at Election to be held on the day of , 19 , of Governor of the Hamilton High School.

CANDIDATES.

[Set out in alphabetical order of surnames the full name of every duly nominated candidate.]

DIRECTIONS.

The number of candidates to be elected is [Specify the number].

The voter is required to mark a cross in the square set opposite the name or names of the candidate or candidates for whom he desires to vote.

The number of candidates whose names are thus marked must not exceed the total number of candidates to be elected.

This voting-paper must be signed by the voter and enclosed in a sealed envelope, bearing on the outside thereof the words “Voting-paper,” and if posted to the Returning Officer must be posted on or before the day of election, or, if delivered to him, shall be delivered at his office, Street, , before the day of election, or not later than 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day.

The vote of [Name the voter] is hereby recorded as above, this day of , 19 .

[Signature of voter.]

(10.) The poll shall close at 5 o’clock on the afternoon of the day of election; but all voting-papers shall be included and counted which are not informal and are received by the Returning Officer in due course of post before the close of the sixth day after the day of the election.