SCHOOL ELECTION POLLS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2147, 13 May 1914, Page 2

SCHOOL ELECTION POLLS

HAfHAZiVRt) METHODS. A woll-known Petono ho-nSehoMer advocates a bettor system of school eomniittoo elections than the pras<!}it haphazard method. Ho states that, at the eieetfcm cf tho District High School Cktttitnitteo last weok, -ovory person was presented witk a _vfiting«card regardless of qualification* as bousehoM-ers, or giiajdiaiis; "It is Well known," he continned., "that after electors havift voted at Peto-ne AVest, many of them find their way to the Main Schoo-lj liccauso there is always.an entertainment thefo whilst tho scrutineers are at work, and, under the present system, unscrupulous persons, have the opportunity of voting at both schools. In any case there is nothing to prevent a person obtaining -two or rnoro" cards, as the officials in charge are usually unable to.identify individuals in a meeting of this size. Wlieii a-sk«d for his suggestion by way of remedy, lift stated that a household*ers' (numbered) roll .should be compiled, and ballot papers printed with, the candidates' nanies thereon. No nominations for election shmild bo received .it th;o meeting, and no nomination sbouhl be aepeptcd unless the candido-te Ims a direct interest in tho school, who has chiMrcm attending, or will attend when .old enough. lie eonclndod by venturing the opinion that if these •methods were used at- .committee elections, vastly different committees would bo chosen, not, only in Peto-ne, but throughout the Wellington Educational district-