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4. No subsidy shall be paid or payable under section 43
   of the said Act to any of the said Boards in respect of con-
   tributions levied from contributory local authorities as afore-
   said for the purposes of its expenditure for the said financial
   year.

5. (1) In lieu of subsidy computed by reference to con-
   tributions received from contributory local authorities in
   accordance with section 43 of the said Act, the Minister of
   Finance may from time to time pay to each of the said Boards,
   towards its expenditure for the financial year ending on the
   31st day of March, 1932, a special subsidy in accordance
   with these regulations.

(2) The special subsidy payable to any of the said Boards
as aforesaid shall not exceed an amount equal to the sum of
the amounts following, namely :—

(a) The amount which, in accordance with the provisions of
the said Act, was estimated to be receivable from the
Consolidated Fund by way of subsidy on con-
tributions levied on contributory local authorities
in respect of the expenditure of the Board for the
financial year ended the 31st day of March, 1931;
and

(b) The amount of the difference between the estimated
subsidy for the last-mentioned financial year and the
amount of subsidy actually paid out of the Con-
solidated Fund for that year.

(3) Subject to the provisions of the last preceding subclause,
the special subsidy payable to each of the said Boards in
respect of its expenditure for the financial year ending the
31st day of March, 1932, shall be such amount as the Minister
of Finance, after taking into account the Board's other
sources of revenue, deems necessary to enable the Board to
meet its expenditure for that year.

6. The special subsidies payable to the said Boards pursuant
   to these regulations shall be paid out of moneys appropriated
   by Parliament for the payment of subsidies to Hospital Boards.

7. (1) Section 92 of the said Act shall apply in respect of
   relief granted at any time within six months after the 3rd day
   of February, 1931, by any Hospital Board to any person who
   on that date was resident in any of the said districts, if the
   grant of such relief was necessitated by the earthquake, not-
   withstanding that the district in which such relief was afforded
   may not be contiguous to the district in which such person was
   so resident.

(2) In the event of any question being raised as to whether
or not the relief afforded to any person was necessitated by the
earthquake, or as to the extent to which any relief so afforded
was necessitated by the earthquake, it shall be determined
by the Minister of Health.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk & the Executive Council.

Regulations prescribing Terms for which Members of Napier
Secondary Education Board shall be appointed, &c.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June,
1931.
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
him by the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 2), and of all other
powers enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Go-
vernor-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 make the following regulations
prescribing the terms for which the several members of the
Napier Secondary Education Board shall be appointed or
elected under section thirty-nine of the Finance Act, 1931
(No. 2), fixing the dates for making the appointments or the
holding of elections, prescribing the manner of conducting
the elections, and, with the like advice and consent, doth
prescribe that, except where otherwise expressly provided
for herein, this Order shall come into force on the date of
publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations, where not inconsistent with the
   context,—

"The said Act" means the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 2):
"The Minister" means the Minister of Education:
"The Board" means the Napier Secondary Education
Board:
"Member" means a member of the Napier Secondary
Education Board:

"Registered Association of Employers in Local In-
dustries" means any association of employers in
local industries recognized thereto by the Minister
and registered by the Board as an electing authority
under the Act:

"Registered Association of Employees in Local In-
dustries” means any association of employees in
local industries recognized thereto by the Minister
and registered by the Board as an electing authority
under the Act:

“Parent of a pupil” includes a pupil’s guardian and the
householder in whose family the pupil resides, and
includes both the father and mother of a pupil:

"Pupil" means a full time day pupil whose name is on
the roll of any school under the control of the Board,
and any pupil under nineteen years of age attending
part-time day or evening classes, but does not in-
clude a pupil in any class below Form I:

"Returning Officer" means the Secretary of the Board
or such other person as the Board may direct.

APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS.

2. The member appointed by the Education Board of the
   District of Hawke's Bay shall be appointed by a resolution of
   the Education Board, and the name of the member so ap-
   pointed shall forthwith be notified to the Board, by writing
   under the hand of the Secretary of the Education Board.

3. The member appointed by the Hawke's Bay Agri-
   cultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated) shall be ap-
   pointed in such manner as the association may deem fit, and
   the name of the member so appointed shall forthwith be
   notified to the Board by writing under the hand of the Secretary
   of the association.

4. The Board shall, by writing under the hand of its Secretary,
   notify the Minister of the name of every member appointed
   pursuant to either of the foregoing regulations.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS BY PARENTS.

5. The members to be elected by parents of pupils shall
   be elected in the manner set out as follows, namely :-

(1) Every such election shall be held on a date to be fixed
by the Board in accordance with clause 15 of these regulations.

(2) The Secretary of the Board, or such other person as the
Board may direct, 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 and
address of every person qualified to be enrolled as a parent
of a pupil. The roll shall be closed at 5 o'clock on the four-
teenth day next before the day on which any election is to
be held, and shall continue to be closed until the election is
completed.

(4) The Returning Officer shall, by advertisement in a
newspaper circulating in the district, publicly notify not less
than twenty-one 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 poll.

(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
candidate for election to the Napier Secondary Education
Board 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 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 fourteenth 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 nomi-
nated to be duly elected.

If the number of nominations is less than the number of
vacancies, the Board shall, at its next meeting, select duly
qualified persons to complete the number required.