A CARNEGIE GIFT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1799, 29 August 1906, Page 19

A CARNEGIE GIFT.

Another Australasian institution haul been successful in tapping the surplus wealth of the Sco ts-American plutocrat, iVLr Andrew Carnegie. At a meeting of the Mildura Free Library Committee on August 2, a letter was received from Mr Carnegie agreeing to give £2OOO for the erection of a public library at Mildura. The conditions of the gift are that the money shall be expended in buildings, that the library dhall bo wholly free, that a proper site bo provided, and that the council of tiie town shall expend £IOO per annum in the maintenance of the library. The application which secured this donation was sent through the Marquis of Linlithgow, recently Governor of the Commonwealth, and was not the first such appeal made by the library committee to Mr Carnegie. It seems a pity that some communities in these British colonies do not realise that in seeking foreign eleemosynary aid for their public institutions they are really taking a most abject position in the eyes of the big outer world