No. 86. 2425

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1915.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1915.

Scheme for the Control of the Ashburton High School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th July 1915.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter called “the Education Act”), and with the powers thereunder, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, acting for the Minister of Education, do hereby, on the advice of the General Council of Education approve of the following scheme for the Ashburton High School (hereinafter called “the school”), which is established under the provisions of the Ashburton High School Act, 1878.

1. The school shall be controlled by the Board of Governors (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) constituted by the Ashburton High School Act, 1878, as amended by the Education Act, 1914.

2. With regard to the election of members of the Board 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 before the 31st day of August in the year 1915, and every subsequent election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Board in the month of July in every second year thereafter.

(2.) The Secretary of the Board shall be the Returning Officer.

(3.) For the purposes of each election 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. 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.

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

A “pupil of the school” means a pupil whose name is on the school roll at the end of the term preceding the closing of the roll, but does not include a pupil in any lower department.

(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 nominations;

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

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

(5.) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more parents entitled to vote for his election. Each such parent 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 Ashburton High School at the election to be held on the __ day of __.

Dated this __ day of __.

[Signature of nominator.]

CANDIDATE’S CONSENT [To be subscribed at the 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 MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL.

CANDIDATES.

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

[Signature of voter.]

DIRECTIONS.

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

The voter is required to draw a line through the name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to vote.