MUNICIPAL SPENDING
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The chairman of the libraries committee of the City Council is reported to have said that everyone is anxious to see the new library started. This is good propaganda to induce ratepayers to vote for another loan. Do the rate-1 payers, in view of fallen rents and depreciation and general taxation, find payment of rates now so easy that they desire to borrow at least £50,000? I am a constant user of the library and as devoted to books as anyone could be, and I think the main library and the branches will serve tho city quite well for a decade, or at least until there is less poverty. Apparently some of us have learned nothing from \ adv^rsitv. If any other wealthier country or city has something better or costlier than we possess, let us have it too. We cannot afford it, and have not saved the money required, but we can always borrow and pile up tho debt. —I am, etc., BOOKWORM.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1934, Page 6
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