DEVONPORT LIBRARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 7

DVON E PORT LIBRARY

ACQUISITION OF SITE I I i PROPERTY HOLDERS' CRITICISM ! Disapproval of the action of the Devon- | port Borough Council in acquiring a | library site in the present financial posi- | t-ion of the borough was expressed at, tho j last meeting of the Devonport Property i Holders' Association. I The chairman, Mr. S. Kennedy, re- | ported having interviewed the Mayor. I Mr. H. F. W. Meikle. who stated that i although £SOO was the price paid, the j rates due to the borough amounted to i £75. An annual subsidy of £IOO was being paid by the council to the Library Committee. The £IOOO from the next art union was contingent on a site being secured. The house on the property could bp let at 15s a week. The council held £SO, as a library donation. The balance of purchase money would come from the borough revenue. Tho saving would be, approximately, £4O a year. The following resolution was passed :—"That tho Property Holders' Association does not approve the action of the council in acquiring the site for a library, and thinks that such an undertaking should be postponed until the financial position of tho borough is on a sounder footing."