GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY
Bookbinder Retires
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 22. Mr R. McEwan has retired from the bookbinding department of the General Assembly Library after 31 years’ Government service Since he joined the library staff in 1939 the accession list of books has doubled in number and there are now more than 250.000 volumes in the library, a vast number of which have passed through his hands. - Mr McEwan was well known to some thousands of soldiers who passed through Trentham Military Camp in the early years of World War 11. He was then assistant camp adjutant, and had the somewhat mortifying experience of discovering that two prisoners who escaped from the camp prison had lived for six weeks undetected in the camp itself. Mr McEwan has been responsible for much of the fine binding of valuable files and volumes in the General Assembly Library and responsible, too, for the reconditioning and renovation of many old books and papers.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28776, 23 December 1958, Page 8
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161GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28776, 23 December 1958, Page 8
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