COUNCIL

8..(1) The society shall be governed by a Council of 24
which number shall include the president and two vice-
presidents. The members of the Council shall be elected from
and by the general membership and shall not be eligible for
election unless they have their principal place of residence
within the district.

(2) The president and two vice-presidents shall be elected
by the Council from the members thereof at the first meeting
of the Council which shall be held within 30 days of the
general meeting at which the election for Councillors was held.
The president and vice-presidents shall hold office until their
successors are elected by the Council in accordance with this
rule. They shall be eligible for re-election.

(3) At each annual general meeting the eight councillors
who have been longest on the Council without being re-
elected shall retire but shall be eligible for re-election.

(4) (a) Any president or vice-president failing to attend
the Council meetings for a period of three months without
leave of absence shall thereupon cease to be a member of the
Council; and in the case of such a vacancy or of a vacancy
occurring by the death or resignation of the president or any
vice-president, the remaining members of the Council shall
appoint another member of the Council as president or vice-
president in the place and stead of the deceased, resigned, or
absenting president or vice-president provided that such
vacancy shall not be supplied by the Council except after
seven days' notice given of the new president and/or vice-
president proposed to be appointed.

(b) Any member failing to attend the Council meetings
for a period of three months without leave of absence shall
thereupon cease to be a member of Council; and in the case
of such vacancy occurring by the death or resignation of a
member of Council, then the unsuccessful candidate first in
order at an election held within 12 months prior to the
occurrence of the vacancy shall become a member of the
Council, but shall be a member of the Council only until the
next succeeding election of councillors, provided such candidate
shall be available for appointment and has obtained not less
than 50 per centum of the votes given to the lowest in order
of the successful candidates at such election.

(c) In the event of no election having been held within 12
months prior to the occurrence of the vacancy as provided for
in rule 8 (4) (b) or a casual vacancy or vacancies, provision
for filling which is not made in rule 8 (4) (b), then the
remaining members of Council may appoint another member
of the society in the stead of the deceased, resigned, or
absenting member until the next succeeding election, provided
that such vacancy shall not be supplied by the Council except
after seven days' notice given of the new member to be
proposed.

(5) Where any member of the Council ceases to have his
principal place of residence within the district he shall be
deemed to have retired as a member of the Council as from
the date of such cessation and his seat shall be filled in terms
of rule 8 (4) (b), 8 (4) (a), or 8 (4) (c) as the case may be.

(6) When any member of the Council ceases to be a member
of the society he shall vacate his office which shall then
be filled in terms of rule 8 (4) (a), 8 (4) (b), or 8 (4) (c)
as the case may be.

(7) The vacancies occurring by the operation of clauses 2,
3, 4 (b) or 4 (c) of this rule shall be filled by ballot as
hereinafter provided.

ELECTION OF COUNCIL

9. The election of councillors shall be by postal ballot
   conducted in the following manner:

(a) The secretary shall, on or before the 30th day of September, advertise once in each of three daily newspapers circulating in the district all vacancies to be filled at the annual general meeting and calling for nominations to fill all such vacancies.

(b) Nominations for office shall be in writing signed by the proposer and seconder and containing the nominee's written acceptance and all shall be members of the society on the 10th day of October prior to the election. Nominations must be in the hands of the secretary not later than 5 p.m. on a day to be fixed by him, being a day between the 11th day of October and the 31st day of October.

(c) Not less than 14 clear days before the date of the annual general meeting the secretary shall forward to each member a ballot paper containing the name, occupation, and address of every nominee for office. The names of retiring councillors offering themselves for re-election shall be indicated by an asterisk. The ballot papers shall contain clear instructions on how to vote and state that the voting papers are returnable to the secretary and must be received on or before a day to be fixed by him and notified on the ballot paper, such day to be within three months of the end of the society's financial year. The instruction on how to vote shall contain the following instruction:

"Each member shall leave uncancelled the name of any candidate for whom he desires to vote and shall strike out the name of any candidate for whom he does not desire to vote. Each member shall vote for the full number of candidates required to fill all positions, and any voting paper failing to comply shall be classified invalid."

Canvassing or touting for votes in any form shall be deemed to disqualify the candidate for election.

(d) Any ballot paper received by the secretary after the specified date shall be enfaced with the particulars of the date and time of receipt by the secretary and shall be disregarded in counting the ballot and may be destroyed at the expiration of one month after the date of the annual general meeting.

(e) When in an election there are more than eight seats to be filled as a result of an appointment or appointments to a casual vacancy in terms of rule 8 (4) (b) or 8 (4) (c) then the eight candidates polling the highest number of votes shall hold office for three years. The candidate polling the ninth highest number of votes shall take the seating having the longest unexpired term and hold office for the balance of such term, the candidate polling the tenth highest number of votes shall take the seat having the second longest unexpired term and hold office for the balance of such term, and so on.

(f) On receipt of the completed ballot papers (other than those received after the specified date) the secretary shall hand them unopened to two scrutineers appointed by the Council and receive a receipt from them for the total number of ballot papers. The scrutineers shall then, in the presence of each other, count the ballot and deliver to the secretary prior to the opening of the annual general meeting a certificate signed by each of them declaring the result of the ballot papers under sealed cover. The certificate of such scrutineers shall be conclusive. In the event of a tie for the last vacant seat on the Council the matter shall be decided by lot. The ballot papers may be destroyed on the expiry of one month from the date of the annual general meeting.

(g) The chairman of the meeting shall, immediately following the adoption of the annual report and balance sheet, read out the names of the members successful in the ballot and the number of votes received by each candidate and declare them elected to the Council for the prescribed period of office.

Dated at Wellington this 6th day of August 1962.

LÉON GÖTZ, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Producers' Representatives on Hop Marketing Committee Elected (Ag. No. 7609)

PURSUANT to clause 20 of the Schedule to the Hop Marketing Regulations 1939, notice is hereby given that only five persons having been duly nominated for election to the office of producers' representative on the Hop Marketing Committee, I do declare

Albert Douglas Askew,
Reynold Theodore Eggers,
Joseph Thomas Hill,
Jeffrey MacGlashen Inglis, and
John Edwin Oldham,
being the persons so nominated, to be duly elected as producers' representatives.

Dated at Nelson this 10th day of August 1962.

J. F. SHARPLEY, Returning Officer.

Specifications Declared to be Standard Specifications

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 6 August 1962, declared the under-mentioned specifications to be standard specifications:

Price of Copy
Number and Title of Specification (Post Free)
s. d.
N.Z.S.S. 1720: Fixed electrolytic capacitors (aluminium electrodes) for use in telecommunication and allied electronic equipment. Part 1: General requirements and tests; being B.S. 2134 : Pt. 1 : 1959 ... 7 6
Part 2: List of standard capacitors; being B.S. 2134 : Pt. 2 : 1959 ... 5 0

Application for copies should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Bowen State Building, Bowen Street, or Private Bag, Wellington C. 1.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of August 1962.

E. J. SUTCH,
Acting Executive Officer, Standards Council.

(S.I. 114/2-245)

Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1954-Cancellation of Registration of Industrial Union

PURSUANT to section 86 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1954, it is hereby notified that the registration of the North Island Federated Fertilizer Workers Industrial Association of Workers, Registered No. 1978, situated at Auckland, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of August 1962.

N. S. WOODS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions, Department of Labour.

(Lab. 3/2/1690)