The time for the aDnual election of School Committees is now approach ing, and,|as the method of procedure has been most materially altered by the Act passed during the last session of Parliament, it may not be uninter esting to point out the course now to be followed. In the .first place y then, we find a new' definition of the term householder. This includes " (1) Every adult, male or female, ■who has for |the period of three months next before the day of the election, resided in fany dwellinghouse within the school district as owner or tenant thereof; and (2) if not qualified under the previous sub - section includes the father wherever resi dent, or, if he be dead or absent from the colony, the guardian or other person, wherever resident, who has the actual custody of any child attending any State school situated within such district." In mining districts, holders of a miners right are also to be deemed house holders. Every householder is quali fied to vote for the election of a School Committee for any district, but only resident householders are open to election as members of the committee, and,no paid servant of the Education Department, Education Board, or School Committee, can be elected. The election of committees is to take place at a meeting of householders on the fourth Monday in April. A com mittee is to consist of not less than five, nor more than nine members, the number depending on the average attendance at the school during the preceding year. When this has not exceeded 25, the number of commit tee will be five, where it exceeds this up to 200 the number will be seven, and where the attend ance has exceeded 200 the number will be nine. Three, four, or five respectively" are to form a quorum. Nomination of candidates for election to Committees are to be made in writ ing, ho as to reach the Ohairmau of the Committee not later than 8 o'clock p.m. on the third Monday in April. A form is given for the nomination, which must be signed by the proposer and candidate. Tfre Chairman is to poet the list of nominations on the school door as soon after the third Monday in April as possible. 