FORTHCOMING ELECTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 59, 5 April 1946, Page 5

FORTHCOMING ELECTION

WHAKATANE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

ELEVEN NOMINATIONS RECEIVED

Eleven nominations have been received for the new School Committee which is to be elected on Wednesday night at 7.30 p.m. at the school. The committee consists of nine members. All seven remaining members of the present committee will be standing again, together with four new candidates. The two present members not standing are the Rev. J. C. J. Wilson, who is proceeding to Japan with the New Zealand Army of Occupation, and Mr L. R. Spring.

Those for whom nominations have been accepted are as follows: Messrs H. G. Dainton, D. Paterson, W. Whittaker, J. W. Wilson (present chairman), T. C. Johnston (present secretary), W. E. Armstrong and F. W. Lysaght, all of whom are present members of the committee; Mr Frank Clark (an ex-member of the Whakatane School Committee) who has returned to Whakatane after an absence of seven years to take over the management of Wheeler’s Garage, and who, during his residence in Levin, from whence he came to Whakatane was a member of the Levin Rehabilitation Committee and President of the Garage Proprietors Association; Mrs N. Carr, well known by reason of her position as Librarian to the Whakatane Public Library; Mrs W. L. Petty, Secretary of the Whakatane Beekeepers’ Association, and also of the newly formed Parent-Teacher Association; and Mr G. E. Mahy of Ohope, who is standing in the interests of parents at the Beach.

The election takes place, as stated above, at the school, on Wednesday evening at 7.30, when all householders, particularly those who have children attending the school, are requested to be present.