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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 155, 11 January 1878, Page 3

NOTICE. ly/TR. W. MONTGOMERY will ad_L._l_ dress th* Electors of the Akaroa District, on WEDNESDAY EVi_Nj ING, tho 16th instant, at the Town , Hall, Akaroa, at half-past 7 o'clock. January 5, 1878. Public Works Office, Christchurch, Jan. 3, 1878. TENDERS are invited for additions, Hospital Cottage, Aknroa. General conditions, specifications and , drawings may be seen at the Public Works office, Christchurch, and at the Immigration Depot, Akaroa. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the [ Minister for Public Works, and marked f outside " Tenders for additions, Hospit tai Cottage, Akaroa," will be received at the office of the undersigned, up to noon of Wednesday, the 16th day of January, 1878. Telegraphic tenders will be received, provided the original tender and deposit are lodged with the nearest District Engineer at the time above specified. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. GEO. PHIPPS WILLIAMS, For Colonial Architect. THE BOARD OF THE EDUCATION DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY. GENERAL ELECTION OF COMMITTEES UNDER NEW ACT. THE Board, in pursuance of power in that behalf conferred by the Education Act, 1877 (sec. 63), hereby directs that a PUBLIC MEETING of the Householders in every School District throughout the Education District of Canterbury, be held on MONDAY, the Twenty-eighth Day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventyeight, at Seven o'clock in the Evening, for the Election in each district of seven householders (sec. 63) to form the Committee for such District, for the year ending with the Fourth Monday in January in next year. The place of meeting shall be the Schoolhouse in each district which is provided with a schoolhouse, and this is to be understood to mean the main schoolhouse in any district which has more than one school. In the districts in which schools are not yet built, the places of meeting shall (subject to correction in a future advertisement) be as follows :—-- Ban* Hill — Blacksmith's Shop, Ba.r Hill. Balcairn—Road Board Office. Ctaremont—Mr Mcintosh's House. Dunsandel—The Hal!, Dnnsandel. Invell—The Church, Irwell. Malvern South—South Malvern Road Board Office. Otaio Upper—Mr Agnew's House. The following are extracts from the Education Act, 1877, bearing upon the election of Committees :— •'' Householder' means every adult male or female person, who as owner, or tenant, lessee, or occupier, occupies, uses, or resides in any dwelling house, shop, warehouse, or other building in any district, or every parent or guardian who is liable to maintain, or has the actual custody ot, any child," (Section 4.) ■' No bankrupt who has not obtained his final order of discharge, no person attainted of treason, or convicted of felony, or perjury, or any infamous crime, no person of unsound mind, aud no person not qualified as herein required, shall be capable of being or continuing a member of any Commit lee." (Section 59.) "At such meeting [for election of Committee] a chairman shall be chosen, ancl the Committee for the preceding year shall give a full report of its proceedings, and thereupon the elecfccs present shall proceed to elect by ballot, as hereinafter provided, a new Committee for the then current year of seven persons qualified'as prescribed by the fifty-eighth section of this Act, and may reelect all or any of the persons going out of office to be members of such new Committee." (Section 64.) "At every meeting convened and held for the election of a Committee, the Chairman having a deliberative vote shall also have a casting vote. (Section 64.) •* At every election for a School Committee every voter shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number ot the Committee to be elected, and may give all such votes to one candidate, or may distn'bute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit." (Section 65.) The Board further directs that the • first meeting of each School Committee be held in the place appointed for the election, and immediately after the election, upon the same evening. The Board requests the Chairman of s .each public meeting to make to the i Board immediately after the election a return of the names of the seven householders elected to form the Committee, and recommends that each Chairman of Committee report his own election as soon,as possible; , : ; JOHN INGLIS, A Chairman. ' Christchurch, Jan. 4aWHHH|^H -—*■■ ■ _________________________