LIBRARY PROGRESS
jN THE HUTt VALLEY
Information concerning- • the Petona Municipal Library was contained in the annual report of the librarian (Mrs. S..M. Shoi'tt) presented to the meeting of the Pctone Borough Council last night. Mrs. Shortt reported that at the close of the year 1932-33 the membership of the library was 264, as compared with' 263 at tho end of March, 1932. Three hundred- new books were added to tho library during the year, and three hundred 'books were rebound" and again placed into circulation. The amount received in subscriptions, etc., for tho year. 1932-33 .was £139 12s (including £5 7s juvenile subscriptions). The subscriptions,' etc., for the previous year 1931-32 amounted to £140 lls _ (including £4 15s juvenilo subscriptions).. The juvenile section now contalnedfour hundred books, 4 thirty-three new books being aided "throughout the year, at a cost of £4 19s. The subscriptions received from tho children for tho year amounted. ,to_.£ 5 7s. Thirty children had joined the library since January 1, 1933. Tributes werp paid by various councillors to^ the , in -- which the library was" kept. "It's a credit to the town," said one. The Lower Hutt Municipal Library; Committee was last evening congratulated by! Councillor J. Mitchell '■ on the improved usefulness of the library. There had; been 21-new subscribers for the year,1 he said, as against five the previous year, and 2639 books had been issued, as against ,2417 the previous yoar. '' -:. ''...-'', ■■_ ■.
In the Petone Court yesterday, before' Messrs. T: Potts and J. Huggan,* J.P.s, Honald Thomas Henderson, Alexander Graham, and John/Joseph MeCliutock were charged with breaking and entering the Moera Post Office on April 2 and stealing a piece of rubber hose, valued at 7s 6d, the property of the Postmaster-General. Henderson and Graham pleaded guilty and were committed to tie Supreme' Court for (sentence, and McClintock, who pleaded; rio| guilty, was committed for trial.'> M'< H. B. Bannister appeared for Graham, J
LIBRARY PROGRESS
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 7
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