LIBRARY FOR LINWOOD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14983, 1 May 1909, Page 11

LIBRARY FOR LINWOOD.

A PROPOSAL ADOPTED. A meeting called by the Linwocd Citizens' Association wa.s held last: evening in the Oddfellows’ Ha!!, Rcllrston Street, Lin wood, for the purpose oi discussing a proposal to establish a library. "Air W. V. Tanner presided. Mr CL' tV. Russell, - M.1 1 ., said that the City Council had put the sum <>i £4O on its estimates for tho purpose oi stocking a library at Lin wood and had offered the use oi the old Linwocd Council Chambers at a rent of ten shillings g. year. The offer or £4O had lapsed. it had not been taken up by March 30, the end of the financial year, but he had that day .seen the Town Clerk and Councillor Olley, mi the absence cf the Mayor, and while they could not speak definitely, they had expressed the opinion' ", bat the £49 would still he available, and it would be- added to by the usual annual grant of £25. To this would have to bo added the share of the annual parliamentary grant of £3OOO, probably £lO, and with the money so provided i! would be possible lor tho residents of Limvood to stock a fairly large number of books. Ho thought that a subscription of os a year would be wuhieic-nt to defray expenses, and that probably at- least three hundred subscribers might- he expected. Mr Clark moved that a library should be established in Linwocd, with headquarters in the old Council Chambers. He expressed a hope that the example of St- Albans and Sydenham, which, he said, had billiard-rooms in connection with their libraries, would not be followed. The motion war, seconded by Mr C. Reddiugton and carried unanimously. Messrs J. R. Brunt, Joint Jamieson, W. T. Mackay. A. Marshall. G. W. Russell, D. Richardson, P. Rountree. Yv. YY. Tanner, B. M. Cbappel and J. Clark, Councillors T. X. Horsley and H. J. Of,ley, and the president,_ secretary and treasurer of the Lin weed Citizens’ Association, were appointed a committee to consider the matter and report to a future meeting. A vote of thanks? was passed, to tho City Council for its offer of the Council Chambers as a site for the proposed library, and Messrs G. V. Russell, YY.

W. Tanner, A. Marshall, D. Richardson, H. M. Cbappel, J. Clark and C. Reddington were appointed a deputa-t-ai-on to jyait upon the Council to request that the lapsed grant- of £4O should n-ot he withdrawn and to ask for any further assistance the Council might see fib to givo. On Mr Tanner’.- motion a vote of thanks . was passed to the Limvood Citizens’ Association for the trouble which it had taken in the matter.