THE LAW LIBRARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 4

THE LAW LIBRARY.

"Everything comes to him who waits," runs a version of an old saying, "but he has to hustle while he waits."' The Auckland District Law Society, in its demand for a new Law Library, has both waited and hustled, and now, arter many years, it is promised the needed addition. Only lawyers and the few laymen who have been in the Law Library at the Supreme Court knowhow utterly inadequate the accommodation has been. The library is the principal research centre of the profession, and everybody knows how the profession has grown; it drills by companies, go to speak, where it once drilled by platoons. Clients perhaps do not sufficiently realise the importance of the library, that many a case has been won there—or lost. Proper facilities for study are needed in the interests of justice and professional culture. We hope that the new building will be worthy architecturally of the main block. The Supreme Court is one of the few impressive buildings in Auckland, and the new library, to be erected beside it, should be made to harmonise with its architecture.