COMMERCIAL LIBRARY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 132, 7 June 1930, Page 6

COMMERCIAL LIBRARY

BUSINESS HEN'S INTEREST A commercial section of the Wellington Central Library, suggested by the Chief Librarian (Mr. J. Norris) last year, may now go ahead, for the full amount of financial assistance which was sought from business men. firms, and associations lias been subscribed. The aim was for £250, and actually £260 has been promised, as well .as a number of reference volumes and other publications suitable for the shelves of this section. The council will subsidise the amount as required, and, though the commercial branch may be a year or two in working up, it _ will offer real possibilities and opportunities to students ' in various branches of commercial .work.

It is expected that there will be a satisfactory response once the section is established to the suggestion that business men and firms should place on the shelves volumes and periodicals which would be a considerable value to commercial men generally, whereas at present little or House is made of them. The section will be located in what is at present a stackroom, to the left of the first floor landing. The contributors are as follow:—Chamber of Commerce £3O, Manufacturers' Association £2O, British (U.K.) Manufacturers' Association £lO, Commercial Travellers' Association (Wellington branch) £5 ss, New Zealand Society of Accountants (Wellington branch) £25, Incorporated Institute of Accountants £25, Wellington Drapers' Association £2O, New Zealand Shipowners' Association (Wellington branch) £lO 10s, Wellington Builders' and Contractors' Association £lO 10s, Wellington Master Painters' Association £lO 10s, Now Zealand Institute of Architects (Wellington branch) £5 ss, Furniture Trade Employers' Association £5 Ss, Electrical Federation (Wellington contractors' branch) £5, Wellington Newspaper Proprietors' Association £5, New Zealand Educational Institute (Wellington branch) £1 Is; Cadbury and Fry's, Colonial Motor Co., Dominion Motors, Ellis and Manton; Texas Oil Co,, Edwin Salmond and Andrew Fletcher, each £5 ss; Bryant and May, Bell, and Co., and W. D. and H. O. Wills, each £3 3s; Amalgamated Brick and Pipo Co., D.1.C., Ford Sales and Services, Huteheson, Bowman, and Johnson, Kirkcaldie and Stains, J. J. Niven and Co., and Victoria Laundry Co., each £2 2s; Adams and Blyth, Atlantic-.Uniou Oil Co., Billiards, Ltd., Crawley, Ridley,, and Co., J. J. Curtis and Co., M'Gowan and Magee, J. G. Marshall, Alex,. Martin, Paterson and Co., Scoullars, Ltd., Sharland and Co., Shell Oil Co., Vacuum Oil Co., S. S. Williams and Co., each £1 Is; a total of £260 15s.