AREA FOR NEW LIBRARY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 13558, 16 September 1944, Page 2

AREA FOR NEW LIBRARY

REQUEST TO B 0 R 0 r ( , COUNCIL LOl! Deputation Fr offi Committee Old Gasworks Site Suggested For the purpose of a o. Tauranga B.orough Council quire a suitable area 0 f V, ° i: ’ which to erect a library : some time in the future.’ a lion from the Library ' Qowaited on the council at meeting. * The deputation comprised' Hon. \V. L. Barnard and Jlej - Bradney Williams and r T’’ Porter. H ’ I In submitting the Library u mittee’s request, Mr Barnard that it was shown in the port of the committee recently - very considerable progress had £ made by the library and that v gress had been well maintained ? committee had been considering future and considered that's u for a new library should be acquit now. It was not thought that a building should he erected now y simply that an area of laud shoe'be acquired. The present buil'i--would be inadequate for, the skuTauranga that was envisaged, area it was suggested should b* * quired for the purpose was the o:; gasworks site in Grey Street, Mr Porter also spoke of the need for procuring an area of la:i stressing the need fon giving «:■ sideration to the surroundings r well as a new building. When the question was discussed at a later stage of the meeting C; W. S. Holland moved that a cot mittee comprising Crs. J. S. Sift house and W. A. Carswell be set tj to consider sites, the motion beics seconded by the Mayor (Mr L. E Wilkinson) and carried.