PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 8

PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY.

The annual report of tfife Chief Parliamentary Librariaii states that recess privileges were granted during the lato recess to 817 persons, an increase of more than 20 per cent, over the number in the preceding recess. The number of books lent to recess privilegeholders during the last recess was 9391, as compared with 6137 in the previous recess, an increase o£ 53 per cent. Ai the recess privilege-holders are not entitled to take out books of fiction, these numbers are eloquent testimony to their appreciation of serious literature. ''I am glad to say that most of the privileged readers show their appreciation of the privilege also by a Strict observance of the rules," says the Librarian. "At present eleven volumes borrowed during the recess are still outstanding, but it is hoped they will 1 all be. recovered." • . , The occupations of the privilegeholders were given as follows: —Accountants, . 13; analyst, 1; architects, 4; artists, 6; auctioneer, 1; bankers, 11; builders, 2; chemists, 6; civil servants, 138; clergymen, 15; clerks, 86; conchologist, 1; dairy worker, 1; dentists, 3; domestic duties, 86; draper, 1; draughtsmen, 10; electrical engineers, 5; civil engineers, 7; mechanical engineers, 3; gardener, 1; geologist, 1; inspectors of schools, 2; insurance agents, 4; interpreter, 1; journalists, 23; labourers, 2; land agents, 2; law clerks, 10; mechanics, 2; medical practitioners, 11; merchants, 20; messengers, 7; meteorologist, 1; military officer, 1; municipal employees, 4; musicians, 3; naval officers, 2; no occupation, 90; nurses, 4; optician, 1; palaeontologist, 1; piano tuner, 1; retired civil servants, 37; salesmen, 12; seamen, 2; settler, 1; shipping managers, 2; shop assistant, 1; solicitors, 29; students, 26; surveyors, 3; teachers, 57; timber merchants, 2;' trade union secretaries, 3; typists, 21. . The Joint Library Committee yesterday recommended to the House of Eepresentatives that tho Government be requested to take steps to increuej tho accommodation in. the General Aa> senibly Library.