MR CARNEGIE AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
(To the Editor.)
Sii*, —-If any towns or cities of New Zealand want money to build public libraries, they have only to a PPIy to Mr Carnegie to get it. On the occasion of his receiving- the Freedom of the Plumbers' Company in London lately he spoke (inter alia) as follows, although, unfortunately, by some error it was omitted in reporting- his speech (see London weekly edition, 23/5/1902): "By the g-if t oi a /little more than a million ■■■sterling , to pay for the erection of 72 buildings for the branches of the New York public libraries I have committed the city to the purchase of tie sites and the permanent maintenance of the libraries, I have made similar arrangements for single ■public libraries in Pittsburgh, etc., and many other cities on both sides of the Atlantic, and I am ready to do business on the same terms with any other city in. {he English speaking world."- Surely, now) , every; city in this grand colony will at once-talte the necessary steps 'to accept this grand offer, nnd the sooner the better. —I am, etc., ■;"... ■ . - ; ; FEED. A. G/CX)TTEEEIL. ' Mqunt AJ jrt.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 165, 14 July 1902, Page 2
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