CORRESPONDENCE.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 29 May 1895, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

to tiik f.ditor. Sin, —I was much surprised on entering the reading-room of the Library the othi day to see a notice addressed to strangers stating that as so many petty theftti oi periodicals had taken place from the tal Icm it would bo nooosgiuy for nil strangest tv bo introduced into tin? room in futun bj the lion treasurer or secretary, failinp which they would be ordered from tin room. I should very much like to know it such drastic stops as this were takenaft< i consideration by the committee, or is it. the work of some too zealous officer. 1: is scarcely in accord with the! statement of the hon. secretary to Sir Patrick Buckley, the other day, that nil tourists received a cordial welcome to the reading I room, and were granted its free us. There is not much cordiality in a notice which presupposes that the strangers am: visitors to the place are the" suspects " ii. tin! matter of the disappearance of magazincs.Besides, if such a notice is considered necessary, would it not be as well to inform strangers of the names and whereabouts of persons who are competent to introduce them, because it can scarcely !w supposed that visitors to the place can have an intuitive knowledge regarding the personality of those who are qualified to act as sponsors in this respect. Perhaps tinfact of stopping at a certain boardinghouse or hotel might be deemed sufficient, so long as the proprietor is a member. It is of course, unfortunate that magazines should be purloined from the room, but such is not confined to Rotorua alone and other institutions content themselves witli posting a list of the missing numbers and do not insult, strangers and visitors to the town by having such an illadvised placard staring them in the face as 60on as they cross the threshold. ) am, &c, A Membeii.