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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Regulations for the Election of Members of Education Boards under the Education Act, 1914.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day of May, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by the Education Act, 1914, and the amendments thereof (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by Orders in Council of the fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, for the purpose of providing for the election of members of the Boards of the several education districts, and in lieu thereof doth make the following regulations; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. 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.

2. 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 last census previous to the date of the election.

3. Whenever on the 1st day of March of the year in which the ordinary election of members of an Education Board is held it is found that a borough or group of adjoining boroughs has so increased in population as to become an urban area, the member of the ward of the rural area in which such borough or group of adjoining boroughs is situated, not being the member to retire at the time of the election, shall thereupon elect to represent as a member of the Board either the rural area or the newly constituted urban area, and the additional members of the Board required to represent both the rural and urban areas shall be elected at the time of the general election; and, further, whenever on the aforesaid date it is found that an urban area has increased in population so as to become entitled to an increased number of members on the Board, such additional members shall be elected at the time of the general election; and the vacancies so created shall in both cases be filled in the same manner in all respects as if they were ordinary vacancies.

COMPILATION OF VOTING-LISTS.

4. 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 Schedule hereto, and shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection by any person concerned.

5. 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.

6. The voting-lists shall be closed at five o’clock on the afternoon of the day on which nominations close, and shall remain closed until the election is completed.

7. 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.

8. 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 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.

9. 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.”

10. 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.

11. 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.

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SCHEDULE.

Form No. 1.

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

Names of School Committees.
(In Alphabetical Order.)

Names of Voters.

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Form No. 2.

Consecutive No.

VOTING-PAPER FOR USE AT ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE DAY OF , 19 , 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.]

DIRECTIONS.

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

The voter must draw a line through the name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to vote, and the number of candidates whose names are left uncancelled must not exceed the total number of candidates to be elected.

The voting-paper must be posted or delivered to the Returning Officer in a closed envelope, bearing on the outside the word “Voting-paper.”

The voting-paper, if delivered to the Returning Officer, shall be delivered at the office of the Board before the day of the election, or not later than five o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the election; and, if posted to him, shall be posted to him not later than the day of election.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Declaring Road-lines through Land in Lees Valley Settlement, Canterbury Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New