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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1878, Page 4

IN occordanco with the provisions of Section 63 of " The Education Act. 1877" the Education Board of the District of Nelson heret-y up point THURSDAY, June 6th, at 7 p.m , for the MEETING of HOUSEHOLDERS in the several undermentioned School District?, to ELECT SEVI-N HOUSEHOLDERS in each Dis fcrict to torm the School Committee for the year 1878. The place of Meeting in ench School Districts is also fixed as follows :— Aorerc— The school hou»e, Ferntown Addigon's Flat— The school house, Addison's Flat Charlestown— St. Patrick's Bch' jl hous°, Charleston Collingwood-— The school houae, Collingwood Dovedp'e — The srhcol house, Dovdale Eighty-Eight Valley — The school house, nighty-Eight Valley ; Hope — The school house, BaDzau Motueka — The echool hous a , Motueka Moutere, Upper— The gchcol houae, Sarau MdutPiv, Lower— The school house, Lower Moutere Motupiko- The school house, Motupiko Motupipi— The school house, Motupipi Nelson— Provincial Hall, Nelson Neat'tnoti— The school house, Ngatimoti Patlgatotara— The school hou'e Pangatotara Richmond— The school house, Richmond. Reefion— The court house, Reeiton Riwflka — The school house, Kiwuka Suburban North — The school house, Billside Ptoke — The school house, Stoke {spring Grove— The school houße Spring Grove Takaka Easi— The school house, Takaka Fast Takaka, Upper— The school house, Long Plain Takaki, Lower The school house, Lower 'i aknka Waimta West— The school house, the Village, Waimen West WakefieM, Upper — The school house, Upper Wakefield Wakefiiid, Lower — The school house, Lowtr VTakefi Id Westport— The buys' school, Westport Karamei— The fcliool house, K-.rauita. By order of the Board, W C. HODGSON". Secretary Nels m E Jucatijn Beard. EXTRACT PROM EDUCATION ACT, 1877 REFERRING TO ELECTION OE SCHOOL COMMITTEES. [ Section 58. I?or every school distilct constituted uuder this Act there sb be a School Committee consisting of sev ju'seholders resident within the school dk , ' A, to be elected as hereinafter provided. Section 63. The first meeting , the householders in every school distric. s tall be held on such day >in the year one Inousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and at such time .and place, as the Board of the district ',in. which such school districts respec vely are shall for each appoint, aud at evei/ such meeting the householders present shall elect in manner hereinafter provided seven householders to form the committee for such district. 64. On tlie fourth Monday in the month of January in each year succeeding vie year one thousand ei^ht hundred and seventyeight, a public meeting of the householders in every school district shall be held nt a time and place to he fixed by the BoaYd, and publicly notified at least fourteen days previously. At such meeting 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 p oceed to elect by. ballot, as hereinafter provided, a new Committee for the then current year of seven persons qualified as prescribed by the fifty-eighth section of this Act, and may re-elect all or any of the persons going out of office to be members of such new Committee. Every Committee so , appointed shall hold, office until the appointment of its successors, and, if any vacancy shnll occur by death or otherwise than by effluxion of time in any Committee, the remaining members of the Committee shall elect ,a -, • ', qualified person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies. At every meeting convened and held for the election of a Committee, the Chairman having a deliberative vote shall also have a casting vote. . .65. At every election for a 1 School Committee ever 7 voter shall be entitled to a number of Totes, equal to the number of the Committee to be elected, and may give all such votes to one candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit. 66. If any dispute shall arise respecting' the velidity of the proceedings at the annual or other, election of any member or members of any Committee, the matter in dispute shall be submitted to the judgment of the Board of the district, whose decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. If in any case the electors in any school district shall, from any cuuse whatever, fail te elect a Committee upon the annual day of meeting as hereinbefore provided, it shall be lawful for the Board of the district in which such school district is, if it shall see fit, to fix another day for the election of a Committee for such pchool district, and the same notics of such meeting shall be given and the same proceedings taken thereat as arc prescribed by the last three preceding sections of this Act. 67. If after such las";-mentioncd meeting the householders neglect or refuse to elect a Committee, the Board may appoint a Cojinrissioner for the purposes hereinafter n-en-tioned. 68. The Commissioner so appointed shall exercise all power 3 and duties by the Act imposed and conferred on Committees of school. districts at any. time after he shall have assumed the place and duties of ,the Committee as aforesaid, and a salary to be paid to the Commissioner shall be fixed by the Board if it shall see fit, and shall be paid out of , any moneys available, for distribution in the school district for or to which such Commissioner is appointed. 1511