COUNTRY LIBRARY SERVICE
INAUGURAL CEREMONY IN WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, May 30. Designed to improve country libraries throughout the Dominion by interchanging among them well-selected and up-to-date books supplied from a central stock, the Country Library Service was inaugurated to-day by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J Savage), at a gathering in his rooms at Parliament Buildings. The service is to replace the present system of subsidies to country libraries. There were present representatives of the Education Department, the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the Drama League, and the New Zealand Library Association. The two vans which have been specially built for the service were inspected before the ceremony. One will tour the South Island and the other the North Island. Two trained librarians, members of the service, will drive them, distributing and later exchanging books.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22415, 31 May 1938, Page 10
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