THE LENDING LIBRAEY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—lt; is depressing even in these depressing times to find our City Fathers determined to add to our apparently interminable extravagances by starting a lending -library to the Free Library, and thus continuously adding to our heavy rates for the supply of new books to make good those damaged by the readers. Surely our rates are heavy enough in all conscience at present without piling on this further piece of extragance, and the City Councillors _ ought in all seriousness to devote themselves to rinding out every possible means of reducing , our burden of taxation instead of constantly devising fresh additions. Day after day and week after week we find the names of our best citizens appearing in the insolvency list, and as a heavy taxpayer myself, I want to know when the curb is to be put on?—I am, &c, Air' Impatient Taxpayer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9242, 20 December 1888, Page 3
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