NO MORE LIBRARIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 153, 30 June 1936, Page 7

NO MORE LIBRARIES

BRITISH CARNEGIE TRUST , No more grants for libraries and playing fields are to be made from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, says the "Daily Telegraph." This statement is contained in the annual report' of the trustees. "From the end of 1935," »the, report states, "grants will sot be' made to ipunicipal or country libraries, to special libraries, to newly-formed rural community councils, or to playing fields. "The trustees are of opinion that in each of these .fields they have helped to set up a standard of achievement which should - enable those who are responsible locally to carry on the work and develop it adequately, and that to give further "help would stultify the pionaer principle which is at the root of tb«i .policy which their founder laid down."

The trustees, howeyer, are holding £30,000 available for grants to a limited number of authorities in respect of amalgamated small oirban libraries and to provide for new housing estates.

In the 1936-40 programme, the largest and the most important, allocation is for land settlement, a sphere entirely new to the trustees.

They four experimental schemes for: Co-operative smallholdings of ■3Q-4Q families, each holding, 3-10 acres of iand;, and co-operative part-time subsistence holdings. For schemes of these two types others of the same general chare which may .present themselves, the trustees have decided on a provisional allocation of £150,000 for four to five years. # MUSIC GRANTS. ■ The report announces that the grant of £30,000 to promote a higher standard of amateur music in this country, announced recently, will be adminis* tered on the advice of a joint coAmittee of the trustees and the : hew national federation for amateur music societies being set up by the Incorporated Society of Musicians. The sum will be applied: In encouraging, , by means o? small guarantees against loss' on a season's working, amateur choral and orchestral societies affiliated to the National Federation, and the holding of shc»"t schools for conductors at the Royal College of Music, London, the Royal Manchester College of Music, and the Scottish National Academy of Muiic. Among allocations in the 1936-40 programme are £25,000 for village halls, £30,000 for sc&al service for young people, and £20,000 for a special experiment in educational provision for young people.