INCREASE IN READING.
Many unpleasant changes date from (ho Great War. IToro is a pleasant one, says an English journal. People arc reading morn books now than they did before 1014. This comes out clearly in the report on the Croydon Public Libraries for last year. The issues of books front theso institutions have increased by a million a year. The total now is a million and a-half; it used before the war to be half a million. It is still going up by 60 odd thousand a year. Croydon sets a good example to other (owns, some of which are very backward in providing books. Dover, for instance, has no public library at all.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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115INCREASE IN READING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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