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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 158, 22 January 1878, Page 3

THE BOARD OF THE EDUCATION DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY. GENERAL ELECTION OF COMMITTEES UNDER NEW ACT. npilE Bmrd, in pursuance of p-'wer J.. .in Hint 1..-ha!f c<m,'<UTed liy the Education Act, 1-77 (s.v. 63), berebv dirorts that n PUBLIC MEETING of I the Householders iv every 'School District throughout the Education District of Canterbury, be held on MONDAY, the Twenty-eighth Day of January, One Thousand Eight Hnnured 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 :—■ Barr Hill — Blacksmith's Shop, Barr Hill. Balcairn—Road Board Office. Cl.'iremont—Mr Mclntosh's House. Dunsandel—The Hal!, Dunsandel. Irwell—The Church, Irwell. Mai vera. 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, and no person not qualified as herein required, shall be capable of being or continuing a member of any Committee." (Section 59.) "At such meeting [for election of Committee J a chairman shall be chosen, and the Committee for the preceding year shall give a full report of its proceedings, and thereupon the electors present shall proceed to elect by ballot, as hereinafter provided, a new Committee for the then current year qualified as proscribed 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 G-LA "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 ejection 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 ail such votes to one candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit." (Section 6">.) The Bonrd further directs that the first meeting of c;ich School Committee be he'd in the place appointed for the election, ;ny] immediately after the election, upon the same evening. Tli>> Bfiinl requests the Chairman of each public meeting to make to the Board immediately after the election t\ 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, Chairman. Christchurch, Jan. 4, 1878. AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD NOTICE. rpENDERS are invited for the con--L struction of GO chains (more or less) of the Okain's Bay Road Diversion, through Mr H. Piper's property, Duvauchelle's Bay. Specifications to be seen at the Road Board Office, Akaroa. Tenders to be sent in endorsed " Okain's Bay Road Diversion," addressed Chairman, on or before Saturday, the 19th inst., at noon. Tho lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. JOHN BARWICK, Clerk to Board. T YTTELTON SWEEP ON THE JU DUNEDIN CUP. , 200 Tickets at 10s. Twenty-four | Horses. First horse, £50 ; second do., £20 ; third do., £10 ; starters (divided), £10; non-starters (divided). £10. Ten per cent, deducted for expenses. Should all the Tickets not be disposed of, the Prizes will be distributed pro rata. To be Drawn as soon as full. T. McDONALD, Treasurer.