SCHOOLS LIBRARY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 11

SCHOOLS LIBRARY

Centralisation Scheme For.over twelve months the Hutt Valley Primary Schools’ Headmasters' Association was hopeful of getting a Central School library In which all the schools in tho Hutt Valley would co-operate. The suggestion was for all the schools to pool their libraries and avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the Central Library scheme. This was opposed by one or two of tho biggest schools, which dim not see why they should give more books than some of the smaller schools. The delay has sapped the enthusiasm of some of the association members. To make matters worse, the parochialism that so frequently makes itself felt between Lower Hutt and Petone crept in. It now appears that all chances of the two main boroughs co-operating tn the library scheme are fast diminishing. That this would appear so Is shown by a recent move in Petone. Tho Petone Borough Council recently granted a sum of . money toward a reference library for school children run in conjunction with the Municipal Library. Tbe children’s section already comprises some 350 volumes. A complete list of books has been circulated among the Petone primary schools, the Petone Technical School and the Hutt Valley High School. The chairman of the Petone Municipal Library is Mr. J. C. Burns, headmaster ot Petone West School. He is also president of the Hutt Valley Primary Schools Headmasters’ Association. As he was conversant with the association’s opinions regarding a Hutt Valley schools central library, it would seem from the move in Petone that that idea will have to be abandoned, or at least, considerably modified.

The latest books to be added to the children’s section of the Petone Library are: “Lorna Doone,” R. D. Blackmore; "A Fight for Fortune,” T. C. Bridges; ‘‘The Pilgrim’s Progress,” John Bunyan; J M. Barrie’s “Pctor Pan In Kensington Gardens,” May Bryon; -“Stories from Shakespeare,” Thomas Carter; “Hatherley’s First Fifteen,” M. R. Clark: "The Mastery of tho Air," Wm. J. Claxton: "Famous English Books and Their Stories," Amy Cruse; "Stories from George Eliot," Amy Cruse:- "Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori,” James Cowan; "The Romance of Industry and Inventors,” Robt. Cochranfe; “Glimpses of Old New Zealand,” J. RElder: "Stories from Don Quixote,” H. L. Havell: “In Times of Peril,” G. A. Henty; “At Home With Wild Nature," Richard Koarton; “The Story of Don Quixote,” Dorothy King; “Manco, the Peruvian Chief." W. H. G. Kingston; "Woolly of tho Wilds," Robt. Leighton; “The Wonder Book of Inventions," Professor A. M. Low; "Tho Heart of the Prairie," John Mackie; “A Bofrs’ and Girls’ Life of Christ,” Paterson Smyth; "The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows," Margaret Vandercook; “Makers of the British Empire,”’Harold F. B. Wheeler; “School Friends’ Annual," “School Girls’ Annual,” “The School Girls’ Own Annual," “The Modern Boys’ Annual," “The N.Z. Girls’ Annual” (2), "Giri Guide Stories,” "Chums,” “The N.Z. Boys’ Annual.” “The Great Book for Boys” (2), “The Great Book of Sea Stories,” "The New Nature Book," “The Life of Colonel Lawrence,” "Jlngkins," "Lancaster Tradition,” "Songs and Ballads,” “Martin Pippin.” “Nicholas Nickleby,” “Kenilworth,” “A Tale of Two Cities," "Wonder Book of Why and What.”