THE NEWSROOM

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 10

THE NEWSROOM

PAPERS NOT GOING "A wrong impression has evidently been gathered as to the view taken by the Libraries Committee of the suggestion that the newspaper- room at the Centra] Library should be closed; two correspondents to your paper have evidently got on the wrong track," said Councillor J. Burns, chairman of the Libraries Committee, to a "Post" reporter to-day. The committee had not decided that the newspapers should go, nor had members of the council as a whole expressed themselves in favour of that move. On the contrary, those f.-ho had spoken on the proposal had expressed the opinion that the news room was a very popular and also a very valuable branch of library work in Wellington, and that, notwithstanding practice elsewhere, should not be discontinued. That was definitely his own view. The articles which appeared in "The Post" a few days ago made this position clear, but owing to the dropping of a query mark after the first heading "Papers To Go?" the line appeared "Papers To Go," quite a different thing. That form of heading, in question form, was used because the council has not yet reached a formal decision upon the point, but there is apparently no doubt that the decision, when the matter is fully discussed, will be that tho news room is to stay.