NAVY LEAGUE JOURNAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 262, 4 November 1932, Page 3

NAVY LEAGUE JOURNAL

ADMISSION TO LIBRARY. CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION. The Navy League was under discussion for a considerable time at last night's meeting of the City Council when a recommendation was brought down by the library committee that the offer of the league to supply copies of its school journal be accepted. Objections were raised by Labour councillors, Mr. T. Bloodworth quoting extensively from one of the journals in an attempt to show that the information was inaccurate and not in th« best interest of the children. Other members of the council took the opposite view and a debate ensued in respect to the Navy, the League of Nations, and the British Empire's integrity. The chairman of the committee, Miss ,E. Melville, said that literature "was admitted to the library that some of the members of the committee did not agree with, but they had a public duty to perform in allowing all classes of information to enter. Some of the objectors to the Navy League journal had been strong in their efforts to introduce controversial literature in line with their own opinions and were therefore not justified in their attitude to the committee's recommendation. A motion to refer the recommendation back to the committee was lost on the voices, and the recommendation was adopted.