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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 108, 7 May 1878, Page 4

IN accordance with the provisions of I Section 63 of "The Education Act. 1877" the Education Board of the District of Nelson here 1 y appoint THURSDAY, June 6th, at 7 p.m. for the MEfcniNG of HOUSEHOLDERS in the several undermentioned Srhonl Districts', to ELECT SEVfrN HOUSEHOLDERS in each District^ form the School Committee for the year 1878. The place of Meeting in each School Districts is also fixed as follows : — Aorere— The school hr*u<-e, Ferntown Addison's Flat— The school house, Addison's Flat Charlestown — St. Patrick's school hous?, Charleston Collingwood— The school house, ColliGgwood Dovedale — The s'-h^ol house, Dovedale; Eighty-Eight Valley — The school house, Eighty- Eight Valley Hope — The school house, Ranzau Motueka — The school hous*. Motueka ' Moutere, Upper — The schrol house, Sarau Moutere, Lower— / The sohool house, Lower Moutere Motupiko— The school house, Motupiko Motupipi— The schcol house, Motupipi Nelson— Provincial Hall, Nelson Neat'tnoti— The -school house, Ngatimoti Pangntotara— The school hou«e Pangatotara Richmond— The school house, Richmond. . Reefton — The court house, Reefton Riwaka — Tho school hou-e, Hiwtika Suburban North — The school house, Hillside Ftoke — Tbe school hous?. Stoke Spring Grove— Th3 school house Spring Grove Takaka East— The school houfe, Tnkaka Fast Takaka. Upper— The school house, Long Plain Taknkfl. Tower The school house, Lower Takaka Waimta West — The school hous?, the Village, Waimea West Wakr-fieW, Upper— The school house Upper Wnkefi?ld Wakefield, Lower— The school house, '-•Lower Wakf-fi Id Westport— The boys' schrol, Wes>tp*irt Karamea—The feh">ol house, K ramea. i By order of the Board j W C. HODGSON, fecretary Nelsm Education Boatd. EXTRACT FROM EDUCATION ACT, 1877 REFERRING TO ELECTION OP SCHOOL COMMITTEES. ; . ' Section 68. For every school district' cqn-< stituted under this Act there shall be, a School Committee consisting of seven householders resident within the school district, .to. be elected as hereinafter provided. j Section 63. The first meeting of the ! I householders in every school district .shall be held on such day iv' the year one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-eight, and at such ■ time and place, as the Board of the district ' in vfhich such school districts respectively are shall for each appoint, aud at every such meeting the householders present shall elect in manner hereinafter provided seven householders to form the committee for such district. 64. On the fourth Monday in the month of January in-each year succeeding the year one thousand eight hundred and seventyeight, a public meeting 'of the* householders in every Bchooidistrictsball.be held at a time and place to be fixed by the Board, and publicly notified at least fourteen days previously. At such meeting a Chairman shall be chosen, and the ;Conimittee for the preceding ) year shall give a full report of its proceedings, and thereupon the electors present ahall proceed to elect by ballot, as hereinafter provided, a new Committee for the then current year of seven persons qualified as pre- - scribed 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 shall 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 t . Chairman having a deliberative vote ' j shall>lso have a casting vote. ..' „ i.65., t Atjevery election for a .School' Committee every voter shall be entitled 'to a number of votes, 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 cause 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 school district, and the sante notice ""of such' meeting shall be given and the same proceedings taken thereat as are prescribed by the last three preceding sections of this Act. : 67. If after such last-mentioned meeting the householders neglect or refuse to eleqt a Committee, the Board may appoint a Coni- '" missio'nor for the purposes '.hereinafter mentioned. '* ••_. *; / : 68. •TheCommjssioner-.so appointed shall exercise"all powers anti duties by the Act imposed and conferred on Committees qf school districts at any timo after he shall have assumed the place and duties bf the Committee as aforesaid, and a salary to be paid to the Commissioner shall be fixed by the Board if it shall sec fit, and shall be pa ill out of any moneys available -for*disti*ibutioh in the school district for^ or .to wbich sucji Commissioner is appointed. 1511 rp "i/ruNOASTEB, ! -L« ±y_L WATCHMAKER, Trafaloar-street, Has just received direct from the Manu. facturers, a Parcelof the be*t -' ! ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES especially made for the Colony, tor which he gives a two years' guarhntee. Also an assortment of j Alarum; Hall, and otlier Clocks 1311— tC '; JUST RECEIVED, a few dozen of Pebbt and Co.'s, COPYING INK PENCILS! — ,; '•'-'. ' R- LUCAS & SON. .