COLONIAL BANK BUILDINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 11068, 21 October 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

COLONIAL BANK BUILDINGS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—The subject of a free public reading, room and library for Danedin has now for some considerable time lain dormant, but it. ia Dot deeir%b!e that it should be allowed to do so indefinitely. As most of your readers are aware, Danedin is the only large town in New Zealand without a reading room open to the public. AnckUnd is splendidly supplied in that line. Wellington and i Chrjstchurch are also supplied, though on a smaller scale, while Danedin has no place where the studiom or the stranger may make himself at home. One of the most suitable buildings in the City for suoh ao institution it, in my estimation, the O.jlonial Bank Builiings, which are for sale by auction on Monday first, the 23rd iiut. Now, I would like to atk your reader* if there is any oae of them rich enongh and large-hearted enough to purchase the whole bhek, turn the nu : n hall into a reading room, and give the rents of the surronndinl ■ ofli :es as an endowmant to the same ? By so doing he.would aecure for. hirri»;lf & tatiiift monument, as.in the caw of the Auckland instituttoVand at the same time wafer a permanent benefit oa ibe City am, e« , n . . ". A. Mac Adam.' October 21,