THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

Northern Advocate, 22 May 1928, Page 4

THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

The Borough Council discussed briefly, last evening, the question of enlarging the accommodation at the Municipal Library. The chairman of the Library Committee presented a strong ease. He showed that owing to the growing popularity of this excellent institution, the accommodation which sufficed a few years ago is quite inadequate. This is especially so in respect of the administrative portion of the Library, for it has been obvious for some considerable time that the librarian and her staff are working under great 'difficulties. If something can be done cheaply to afford temporary relief it is desirable that it should be done, but the congestion of the Library raises a much bigger question. It is only a matter of a comparatively short time when the Borough Council will have seriously to consider the reorganisation of the municipal buildings as a whole. There is very real need for proper j Museum accommodation, for instance. It is not known so well as it should bo that Whangarci possesses the nucleus of a very fine museum, which includes in its exhibits articles of great value to the North. Given a proper fireproof building, there is every reason why Whangarci Museum should be come the repository of the great store of historic and other relies which link the North of the early days with the new land into which the peninsula has been transformed. This is only one of tiie arguments in favour of the reorganisation of Whangarci’s municipal buildings, which should form the basis cf the Civic Centro that must come in the not distant future.