Nov. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3251

(iii.) For the purposes of each election, the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll and shall enter therein the name 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.

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

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

(b.) The number of men and women representatives respectively to be elected:

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

(v.) 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.

(vi.) 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 Managers of the [Name] Technical School at the election to be held on the day of , 19 .

Dated this day of , 19 .

[Signature of nominator.]

CANDIDATE’S CONSENT [to be subscribed at foot of nomination-paper].

I hereby consent to my nomination.

[Signature of candidate nominated.]

(vii.) 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.

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

(ix.) If the number of nominations of candidates does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled, and the number of men candidates does not exceed the number of vacancies that may be filled by men, the Returning Officer shall forthwith declare the candidate or candidates so nominated to be duly elected. In 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 voting-paper containing in alphabetical order of surnames a list of all the duly nominated candidates, 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 Members of the Board of Managers of the Technical School.

CANDIDATES.

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

DIRECTIONS.

The voter is required to cross out the name or names of the candidate or candidates for whom he does not desire to vote. The number of vacancies is , of which cannot be filled by a man. The vote will therefore be informal if the names of more than men, or more than men and women are not crossed out. The voting-paper must be enclosed by the voter in a sealed envelope bearing on the inside the signature of the voter, and on the outside thereof the words “Voting-paper,” and if posted to the Returning Officer must be posted on or before the day of the election, or if delivered to him shall be delivered at his office at before the day of the election or not later than 5 o’clock on the afternoon of that day.

(x.) The poll shall close at 5 o’clock on the afternoon of the day of the 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.

(xi.) A voting-paper shall be informal in any of the following cases, that is to say :—

(a.) If the envelope in which it is forwarded to the Returning Officer is not duly signed by the parent; or

(b.) If the number of candidates whose names are not crossed out exceeds the total number of candidates for whom the person is entitled to vote, or the number of male candidates whose names are not crossed out exceeds the number of male candidates for whom the person is entitled to vote, or if in any other way the paper fails to indicate clearly for whom the vote is intended to be given; or