FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1909, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

At the eighth annual meeting of St. Johnls Club (Association code) the Rev. J. Gibb and the Rev. J. Gibson Smith viei'o re-elected patrons, and Mr. J. Butler was appointed president. The vice-presidents elected .were Messrs G A. Troup, C. S. Moore, H. W. Kersley, J. Hislop, J. M. Barnett, J. G. Smith, W. Gill, R. H. Nagle, J. Mackay, W. Hopkirk, W. T. Glasgow, J. A. Thompson, W. Gray, J. Boal, C. A. Redgrave, and J. Thomson. Mr. W. E. Shaw was appointed honorary secretary and treasurer. It is anticipated that the club will enter two second division teams this year, besides a senior one. The classification of books ia the lending department of the Municipal Library is the subject of complaint in a letter from a correspondent signing himself "Liber." He says that books by authors other than those on the classified list are jumbled together as miscellaneous, A or B, etc. These by far outnumber the classified ones, "lii miscellaneous? M., for fnstance," he says, "you will find Ma, Me, Mi, eta, mrxed up together so that you have to wade through the whole lot before you can be sure that the book you are looking for is not there. Surely when the number of books by one author reaches four or over they might easily bo found a place together, and the miscellaneous ones might be arranged in alphabetical order after the manner of the words in a dictionary." The Chief Librarian (Mr. Herbert Baillie), when seen this morning about the question, said that lack of space was a drawback to a fuller classification as suggested. The jumbling of the books in the miscellaneous sections was caused by the public taking a book, say, from one shelf and inadvertently putting it in another. The process of rearranging continuously during the day would be interminable. The only alternative was the plan adopted in the larger libraries of America and Europe, where the public is not allowed access to the books at all, but procures them from a list through an assistant. Mr. Baillie does not think this system would be popular here, where people like to browse among the books and taste before they try. The present system he considered was generally satisfactory, and in any case a particular book desired could be got by asking the assistants. Cabinet has issued an order that no Government officer is to authorise the adveitising of Government or Crown notices without the previous authority of the Minister in charge. Two "hundred and sixty bags and six hampers of mail matter were brought to-day by the Manapouri from the Islands. Of this amount, seventy-five bags, from England and America, are destined for Australia, and the remainder is for New Zealand. Wellington's quota was seventy-eight bags. The friends of Miss Mina Caldow are reminded of the meeting to be held at St. John's Schoolroom at 8 o'clock tonight, for t.he purpose of promoting a bonafit concert to bo held in tho Town Hall curly ia April