(To the Editor.)

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 10

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —As a ratepayer who has been paying his share towards the upkeep of the Public Library for over 35 years, I emphatically protest against tho City Council's misguided decision to ban newspapers from the Public Library reading rooms. During my travels up and down New Zealand for over 20 years it was a great consolation to be able to keep in touch with my home town through the newspapers filed at the several public libraries, and from my experience of the number t people who are to be seen daily in every public library, there must be hundreds who similarly appreciate the privilege. I have recently been on an extended visit to Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney, and in each place I had no difficulty in obtaining' current issues of the Wellington papers at the respective public libraries. It is therefore misleading to say that it is the practice in all large cities to ban newspapers from their public rending rooms. In view of my own experiences elsewhere I am induced to pen this protest in the interests of the "stranger within our gates," and so that the name of our fair city shall not be belittled. Let visitors appreciate ouv city's motto, "Suprcma a Situ," to be a reality and not a mere gesture.—l am, etc., PATRIOTIC.