EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 145, 13 July 1901, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

The election of tbre-i, members of the Tararaki Education Board is cow pro c eding. Seven cmd'd ''es hve be' n comicated for the thre > vao-nd- s. Io three or four ins'adco: through the rominito's having signed the paper in the wrong place, or omit ing to sign, the nomination paper is i&forma l , which is su> prising when it is on-i sidered that the form is as complied d as p"8 ib!e. The cand'dat-s nomin'>t d j are Miss Hey wood, Messrs. B. A, Hi jr-1 nett, E. G. Allsworth, J. Brown, J, I£ j Clayton, W. A. Oollis, aEd Robert Glegg. The first three are tha retiring members offering themselves for r - electiou. Miss Hey wood has b-en Dominated by 12 Commit'e s, Mr Hignett by 15, Mr. Allsworth by 16, Mr. Brown by two, Messrs. 0 lay tin and Oollis two oach, and one. Io several ca'e< the three rotring members have bsfn noninated oa the same paper. The system cf voting oa tl is [occasion i*, however, very different t-> that which formuly obtained. Ea :h committeeman is now supplied with a separate ba 1 lot-paper similar to i ha' used in local bodies elec'ion, with tV l exception that it has a form at th-1 foot worded as follows :—The vote o c *T —I—is 1 —is hereby recorded as u'.ove this day of July, 1901. The vot-n | having crossed out the names of thcuf for whom he does not wish to vote, and he must not leave more thin thie?, fillaj in his name in the first blauk, the ny' cf the month in the second, ai.d ilion signs h's name at the foot of the p <per. i He then folds it, plac s it in an < nv. lop'y supplied with it, addressed to thu S c ' retary of the Edujation Bwud, and marked voting paper. He should then! post it--, tikipg care it is posted before! five o'clock on the 22nd of July. The] paper can be posted at apy time after' it is filled up before the time and date seated. The voting papers are opened by the returning officer on the fourteenth day after th 9 22nd of July in the presence of such scrutineers as may be appointed by any of the candidates, j