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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 159, 25 January 1878, Page 3

THE undersigned has for Private SALE, several good and improved FARMS on the Peninsula. Also', Several very desirable BUILDING SITES for Villa Residences within the town, having sea frontages. C. W. BRIDGE. "VTEW ZEALAND INSURANCE JLN COMPANY (FIRE AND MARINE). Established 1859. CAPITAL :—£1,000,000. Paid-up, £300,000 • Risks taken at lowest rates. C. W. BRIDGE, Akaroa. D. CRAIG, Hereford-street, Christchurch. THE BOARD OF THE EDUCATION DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY. GENERAL ELECTION OF COMMITTEES UNDEE 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 eaoh district of seven householders f sec. 63) to form the Committee for such District, for the year ending with the Fourth Mono-ay 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, Ban- Hill. Balc-airn—Boad Board Office. Claremont—Mr Mcintosh's House. Dunsandel—The Hal!, Dunsandel. Irwell—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 oi, 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] 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 hcrehwifter provided, a new Committee for the then current year oi 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 "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 ol the Committee to be elected, and may give all such votes lo one candidate, or may distribute 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 each public meeting to make to the 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, Chairman. Christchurch, Jan. 4, 1878. VALENTINES! VALENTINES! A LARGE and Superior Assort- . ment for sale, at GARWOOD & CO.'S.