ELECTION OF COLLEGE GOVERNOR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 310, 2 January 1869, Page 2

ELECTION OF COLLEGE GOVERNOR.

The election, under the provisions oJ'JI the Nelson Trust Funds Act, of aGo«'| vernor of Nelson College, in the place oi '{ W. Adams, Esq., resigned, took place \ yesterday at noon, at the Court-house, in | the presence of a Target number of rate- 1 payers than is generally the case on such | occasions, the date fixed by the Act con- J ■ Aiding with the attractions and engage- tj ments of the holiday observed on New $j Year's Day. The Returning Officer, J, Sharp, Esq*, | having briefly stated the object of the meeting, _ j The Hon. Major Richmond proposed f Mr A. Sclanders as a fit^and propei | person for the office, and the nomination | was seconded by Mr J. Webb. | The Returning Officer having asked 1 three times whether there was any other I candidate to be proposed,, was' proceeding \ to declare the election completed, when | Mr D. Jennings, of Motueka, who had 1 announced himself a candidate iv the pub- | lie prints, but who had not been proposed I by any ratepayer asked Mr Sclanders | whether he considered Nelson College as I a provincial trust, and not as a mere J educational establishment carried on for Jl its own benefit ? and also whether that m gentleman was prepared to concur in anj m practicable scheme to render the College m a stimulus generally to education in thesf province ? i The Returning Officer objected to these il questions being put through him, and the k matter dropped. A The election of auditors under the same fi Act was then proceeded with, Messrs Pol-fl lock, Percy, Walcot, Smallbone, andjl Hibble being severally proposed aud se-|| conded for these offices. A show of hands || was called for, and the election was de-|| clared to have fallen ou Messrs Percy and If Hibble. *| Mr Sclanders then returned thanks for | the honor conferred upon him, promising I to do his best to discharge the duties that 1 devolved upon him, and terminated the I proceedings by proposing a vote of thanks, 1 to the Returning Officer. 1