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set apart as a site for workers’ dwellings at Westshore, Block IV, Heretaunga Survey District: Bounded towards the north-west by a road line a distance of 200 links, towards the north-east by a road line a distance of 711·8 links, towards the south-east by a road line a distance of 200 links, and towards the south-west by Charles Road line a distance of 711·8 links; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the First Election of Members of Education Boards under the Education Act, 1914, to be held on 19th July, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifteenth day of February, 1916.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

I N pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section four of the Education Amendment Act, 1915 (No. 2), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purpose of providing for the first election of members of the Boards of the several education districts constituted under the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”); and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

GENERAL.

1. EXCEPT as hereinafter otherwise provided, the rules in the Second Schedule to the said Act shall apply to the election to be conducted under these regulations on the 19th July, 1916, in all respects as if the said rules were then in force and the newly constituted districts were then in existence; save that, unless where inconsistent with the context, references in the aforesaid rules to “the Board” or to “the office of the Board” shall be deemed to be references to the Board or to the office of the Board duly appointed in each case under these regulations to conduct the election.

2. The several presently existing Education Boards referred to in the second column of the First Schedule hereto are hereby appointed to conduct the elections for the Boards of the several new education districts whose names are respectively set opposite the names of such first-mentioned Boards in the first column of the said Schedule; and the said presently existing Boards are hereby severally directed, enjoined, and empowered to take all proceedings in and about the election that may be necessary for the proper conduct thereof.

3. For the purposes of the election the Secretary of the Board so appointed to conduct the election for any district, or the person for the time being acting as Secretary to the Board, shall be the Returning Officer for that district.

4. For the purposes of an election under these regulations, if any school district is partly within an urban area and partly within a rural area, such district shall be deemed to be wholly comprised within the area in which the principal school building of the school district is situated, or within such area as the Director of Education may determine.

5. For the purpose of determining the number of members to be elected for any urban area in accordance with subsection (3) of section 15 of the said Act, the population of such urban area shall be taken to be the population as on the 1st April, 1916, as estimated by the Government Statistician.

COMPILATION OF VOTING-LISTS.

6. The Chairman or Secretary of every School Committee within an education district shall, on being requested to do so, furnish to the Returning Officer for that district a list of the members of the committee, and the Returning Officer shall from the lists so supplied compile a roll of electors (hereinafter referred to as a voting-list) for each urban area and for each ward of the rural area within the education district. Every such voting-list shall be in the form No. 1 in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection by any person concerned.

7. The Returning Officer shall from time to time add to the respective lists the names of all persons who shall 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.

8. The voting-lists shall be closed at the time at which nominations close—that is, at five o’clock on the afternoon of the 28th day of June, 1916.

9. Any member of a School Committee 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 so 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.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS.

10. In every case in which a ballot is necessary the Returning Officer shall, immediately after the nominations are closed, have printed a sufficient number of voting-papers in the form No. 2 in the Second Schedule hereto. The whole number of voting-papers for an election of members of any Education Board shall be numbered consecutively commencing at the number one, irrespective of the several urban areas or the several wards of the rural area within the education district.

11. The Returning Officer shall, as soon as practicable, forward to the Chairman of each School Committee in the urban area or in the ward of the rural area (as the case may be) for which the ballot is to be taken one voting-paper for each member of the Committee, together with an envelope addressed to the Returning Officer at the office of the Board, and having marked thereon the word “Voting-paper.”

12. The Chairman of the committee shall thereupon post or deliver a voting-paper to each member of the committee, and shall record or cause to be recorded in the committee’s minute-book, and produce at the first meeting of the committee thereafter, a list of the members, showing the number of the voting-paper sent to each. This list shall be regarded as confidential, and shall not be made use of for any purpose whatever other than for the purposes of an official inquiry into any irregularities connected with the election.

13. For the purpose of recording his vote at an election under these regulations the voter shall draw a line through the name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to vote. He shall then enclose his voting-paper in the envelope supplied, and shall post or deliver it to the Returning Officer.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Form No. 1.

VOTING-LIST FOR THE URBAN AREA [or FOR THE WARD OF THE RURAL AREA] OF THE EDUCATION DISTRICT OF

Form No. 2.

Consecutive No. .

VOTING-PAPER FOR USE AT ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE 19TH DAY OF JULY, 1916, OF MEMBER[S] OF THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF , FOR THE URBAN AREA [or FOR THE WARD OF THE RURAL AREA].

CANDIDATES.

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