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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties; and no assistant teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until the headmaster has been consulted.

(3.) He shall have the power in cases of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Chairman of the Board, who shall thereupon confirm or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board, when the matter may be determined; but the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has determined the matter.

(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at its next meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board.

(5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization, and, subject to clause 5 hereof and to the regulations under the Education Act, he shall determine the course of study for each pupil.

7. The Board may license hotels or boardinghouses for the accommodation of pupils, and may place such hostels or boardinghouses under the charge of teachers of the school or other suitable persons, and shall provide for the inspection of such hostels or boardinghouses.

8. The school shall be open to inspection as provided by section 96 of the Education Act.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of July, 1915.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Education.

Scheme for the Control of Wanganui Girls’ College.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th 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 Wanganui Girls’ College (hereinafter called “the school”), which has been established under the provisions of the Wanganui High School Act, 1878:

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

2. (1.) There shall be nine members of the Board, who shall be appointed or elected in the manner following, namely:—

(a.) A group of two members appointed by the Governor;

(b.) A group of three members appointed by the Education Board of the district;

(c.) A group of three members elected by the parents of the pupils;

(d.) One member appointed by the Committee of the urban school district (if any) within five miles of the school, or, if there is no such urban school district, by the Wanganui Borough Council.

(2.) Except as hereinafter provided, the ordinary term of office of members appointed under paragraphs (a) and (d) of subclause (1) hereof shall be two years, and the ordinary term of office of members appointed or elected under paragraphs (b) and (c) of subclause (1) hereof shall be three years; but every member shall hold office until the appointment or election of his successor.

3. (1.) The members appointed under paragraphs (b) and (d) of subclause (1) of clause 2 hereof shall be appointed by resolution of the appointing bodies.

(2.) The first appointments under paragraphs (a), (b), and (d) shall be made in the month of July, 1915, or as soon thereafter as may be found practicable.

4. In 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, and every subsequent election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Board in accordance with this scheme.

(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 close 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 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 Wanganui Girls’ College at the election to be held on the day of .

Dated this day of .

[Signature of nominator.]

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 MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE WANGANUI GIRLS’ COLLEGE.

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 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.

(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.