NEW LIBRARY BUILDING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 18

NEW LIBRARY BUILDING

HAMILTON PROPOSAL REPORT TO SUBSCRIBERS [JTBOM OITB OWN CORRESPONDENT] HAMILTON, Friday ' The need for a new library for Ham- * ilton in keeping with the growing needs of the town was referred to by Mr. H. Mercer at the annual meeting of subscribers to the Hamilton library last evening. The Mayor, Mr. H. D. Caro, who presided, said that it was probable a new library would be provided befure long. If the P6st and Telegraph Department adhered to its decision to retain the old Courthouse site for-the new chief post office, and he thought it would, the present library would be removed and the site would be beautified and would provide an open space between [Victoria Street and the Waikato River. !A new library would then be erected on Garden Place. Mr. Caro pointed out .'fifchat nothing definite had yet been de"ilfcidsd, but what he had said was the .•idea the council had in mod. % The annual report showed that the Sfitimber of subscribers stood at 1210, ibompared with 1281 last year, the decrease being accounted for by the openMng of two book clubs in the town. The j T«venue from subscriptions totalled; . j|£S3s, compared - with- £907 last year, inhere were books in the-library. ] grKe statement of showed that £the receipts to £1822, and! the expenditure by £197. j 'ffihere-' was £4OO in the reserve account. iThe revenue'dropped by £9O, and the ' ?;«xnenditure increased by.£43. « ' : % Messrs/ E. A. Butt, H. M. Baker and I jH., Mercer, were elected subscribers' Representatives on the committee. Votes !;pf thanks were passed to thq librarian, i'Miss B. Manning, and her staff, and to the retiring chairman. Mr. Caro, who . •'announced that Mr. S. B. Sims had jsheen appointed tp take his place.