PUKEORA SAN. LIBRARY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 271, 31 October 1932, Page 9

PUKEORA SAN. LIBRARY.

(To the Editor). Sir, —In a recent issue of “John o’ London’s Weekly’’ Lord Davis, speaking to the Welsh National Association, is reported to have put in a plea that the intellectual needs of patients in sanatoria should .be the subject of special care and urged the establishment of a proper system of library organisation to enable the patients to acquire during their stay knowledge that might prove useful to them in after years. Pukeora Sanatorium has a small -library, its growth is dependent on the volumes sent to patients by their friends and by a small fund provided by the patients themselves. It contains some excellent volumes but they are always “out.” This indicates that the patients appreciate good reading and that the library is too small. The authorities in charge of the institution recognise the great value of reading to the patient and that the library is too small and they therefore are making efforts to enlarge it. With this object in view a large receiving box has been placed at the top of Sanatorium Hill, Waipukurau, with this inscription painted thereon: “Books and Papers Gratefully Received.” The box is a very conspicuous object by the wayside, far more so than the Hawke’s Bay Automobile Association’s danger notice. Anyone passing through who has books to spare would be conferring a great benefit to the patients of this institution if they would deposit them iri the receiving box.—Yours, etc., HAROLD BERRY. Napier, 31/10/32.