"WHO SLEEPS IN FEILDING?"

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 745, 4 December 1908, Page 4

"WHO SLEEPS IN FEILDING?"

TO THE BDITOB * Sir, — In a very interesting leader that appeared in the Stab, you asked the above question, and proceeded to castigate the members of the Borough Council for their various shortcomings. lam not a student of local politics, and cannot therefore pronounce an opinion upon the matter, but there is one public body in Feilding which is suffering from a form of somnolence, that calls for immediate attention. I refer to the Committee of the Feilding Public Library. Some few months ago a new Committee was appointed, and I was in great hope that the new members would inaugurate a better state of affairs; but I was doomed to disappointment. The present Committee are irregular in their attendance at the monthly meetings, unpractical in their choice of books, and evidently totally uninterested in their work. A glance at the Library shelves must fill every intelligent person with dismay. There are rows and rows of works by literary nonentities, but the historical and scientific shelves are (largely filled with works that were presented to the Library many years ago. Under capable management the Library should be a credit and a benefit to the town, but each succeeding committee appears to have taken a solemn league and covenant to purchase nothing but literary inanities; and the baneful effect of reading this trash has reacted upon the successive Committees and paralysed all effort. Knowing the interest you take in all matters that appertain to the welfare of the town, I feel convinced, that I shall not appeal to you in vain, and that you will use your potent influence in rousing those weak and somnolent persons to a fitting sense of their duty to the public. — I am, etc., 1 C.CB.