“It is disastrous to the life of this country if envy, or indifference, or narrowness should quench library enthusiasm engendered at some cost,” declared Mr. T. D. A. Hall, Clerk of the House of Representatives, during an address at Thursday’s session of the New Zealand Library Association conference. “We hear much of the loss of some of our best graduates abroad, and it is urged that we do not pay enough in this country,” he continued. “It may be so, but I have spoken to many, to some who have stayed abroad, and to some who have returned to this country. What they miss is that atmosphere of culture, of general interest in fine things which is so stimulating and so necessary for the maintenance of thenown intellectual development and which they have enjoyed so richly in some of the great centres abroad,”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4960, 25 February 1937, Page 6
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