Lyttelton library
Sir, — Your recent Lyttelton library editorial, which sees in the ordinary citizens’ hard-won victory over a dogmc/.’ public body valid reason to plug the last legal cracks and ensure total bureaucratic domination for us all, is oddly out of step with democracy. It shows also a lamentable lack of information on the local predicament, which is of the council’s own making, in refusing to hold a Ibrary-site poll years earlier. You would have been better employed in decrying the intrusion of political prejudice in local I. 1y government which lies at the root of the matter. The library (which ages with the council chambers opposite) has been adjudged unsafe for more than a decade. Had the original sound flan, to rebuild the library on its present site not b n over-ridden years ago, the building would now be an -omplished fact. — Yours, etc., T. M. C. HAY. April 16, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 12
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