EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 6

EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

CANDipATES;fNOMINATED; :.'•/:' Nominations for the.©lection of' three members of the Wellington Education. Board, ,who 66 seats have become vacant-by statutory ment (the' sitting members"being, eligible for re-election), closed yesterday..' The-list of candidates is as foliows:— ■■■■ ■■.:•:' '":-■'■■'■) .:.' v Hutt and Manawatu Ward.—Mr. J.Kebbell, nominated by, the Levin, Shannon, • Petone, Epuni, Ohau, Akatarawa, • Hutt, . Manakau, Johrisonville, Koputaroa, and „• Kaitoke, School Committees. \. City Ward.—Mr. Wm. Allen,' nominated by Mount Cook, Terrace,' Brooklyn, Roseneath; Maranui, Clyde Quay ( 'i pnd : Te ;Arb;.', Mr* Joseph Martin, nominated ;by' Newtown. ■Wairarapa Ward.—Mr. R. Brown, nominated '.by Master ton and Mauricevillo; Mr. W. ,'-"C. Buchanan, M.P.,, nominated by Dalefiel4,' MataraVa," Opalri, Mangarama, Greytowri, Cross Creek, Carterton, Kopuaranga, Ngapopotu, Gladstone, : Rongokokako, Taueru, Bidorord. Ponatahi, and Tano. '.. Mr! Kebbell being'the only candidate nominated for the Hutt arid Manawatu Ward, is re-elected unopposed. Voting papers are returnable on July 26, arid all'-posted" Teturhs must be delivered at the Education Board office within 14 days' after that date/, The result, therefore, -will not be 'made known irntil early in August. ■ ■', ~ \ '■ ■'..'. •■■;..' The procedure of election has been materially varied by recent amendments to the legislative provisions previously existing'.:, Under the new order of members of education boards are elected, not by composite L committees; but by tho individual"votes of members of committees. The principal point to be noted in,conneotion therewith is that-voting papers must not be signed, as formerly. The voter merely crosses out the name of the.candidate for whom he does .not desire to vote. Signed voting, papers will be* held to be'invalid. ■■■ '■.•:■.. .:|-'.'.-.