The Daily News. FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1901. EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 125, 21 June 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1901. EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

u— 'Crre ETTicjtion Board is shortly to bo held. It will b9 noticed jh**fc the form of the notice varies considerably from that, to which we have s en aecus'omed, and that the election okes place in July instead of Febrairy, and the members elected t.i.'ce ;heir sea's in August irs'eid of Ar.rii i"rt t&fir.\ These changes h/ive he ■n Bade by an Act which waa passed dur ng last ee-sion entitled tli9 Educitio;i Boards Election Act, 1900, In addijion to these alterations o 1 htr mportant, and we think admirable :bange*, have been made. The new Act gives each individual number ol svery S;bool Committee a right to vot( personally instead of the commit let leciding by a majority vote which can iidate it should nominate and support The election has to be hold on th( fourth Monday in July in each year three members, as beforr, retiring etc) year, The nominations hsva to be ii the haßds ef the secretary of the Board who is the Returning Officer undo the Act, not later than 5 o'clock on th ; Bth day of July. Instead of the nomi nation being made by the committe ictiag collectively and signed by thi Chairman, nomination papers con fciining the full name and address o the candidate have to be signed by a least two members of a School Com mittee in the Education District an< bear the candidates consent to hi nominat d in writing. Not late: than tho twelfth day before tho da*, of the election the Returning Offic»: shall notify the number of member# ti be elected, the full name of every nominated candidate, the d*y on whici the elections will be held and hour a which the poll closes. Ha shall alsi forward to the chairman of eich schoo committee in the education district i sufficient supply of voting papers for th use of such of the electors as are mem b'rs of that committee. The mode o voting w for each rlector to draw a liri through the name of all the candidate for whom ha desires not to vote. Ihi elector mubtthen sign the voting pape aDd post or deliver it to the Re'utninj Officer in a closed envelope bearing oi tbe outside the words voting paper All voting papers must be delivered t< the Returning Officer Dot later than i p.m. on the 22nd July or if posted mus oear that day's postmark of the offici where it is posted. On the fifteenth day after the election, which is intende ( 'o allow time for voting papers tha bava to ccme from a distance to read tho Returning Offl.es, the Returninj Officer shall open and examine all thi voting papers and after rejecting all in formal voting papers shall ascertaii the, if an ordinary election, three can didates who have received ths gr'ates number of votes and shall by notici exhibited at the Board's office dechr. such candidates to be elected, Thi voting papers have then to be seiJeri o] und sent to the clerk of the neai\>iMagistrate's C urt and not ba opesio( except by order of the Court. At thi end cf six months the voting papers ari to be destroyed. A peral.-y <,f £SO i imposed for sll wing the voting paper to be opened > xcvpt by o de- cf th Court:. Iq cis 3of an equality of vote the m itrer has to be decided by thi Returning Officer by lot. Provision i a'so made providing that each candidat miy appoint one Fcruticeer to be pre sent when the vot : ng pap >rs m e opened tor pull shing the resuL of the poll.fo di-putrd elections to be set lei bv th S ipendiary Magi-irate, instead of a previously by the Education Board. I furm of Eomination paper and votin, paper is (obtained in the schedules o the* Act, and are supplied to elector by the secretery of the Educatioi

Board. The new system is a great \ improvement ou the old system. The The proceedings being much more regular and more in accordance witb tho proceedings at the elf it ions of other local bodies. The secretary cf the also becomes, for the purpose of the election, a statutory officer. To broaden the basis of the election is also a step in the right direc'ion, is it gives every membi r of the <om •nittee the opportunity of recooine his vota for the candidate hi wishei t■iuppor h j, instead of his- being s'lencec '■-.y tho mnjoiity. If the measti e had one a lettle fuither and enlarged the piwe'S of the committees eonesvhat, md givan them an assured fioanca, so that they would no' have to corns cap .n hand to the Educati n Board as t.bey now have to. The Bond wou'd al-o be spared the painful dnty of refusiog claims which th<y recognise as jus', but hare not tho mjney to «atisfy.