IN A LIBRARY
“QUIETNESS BANISHED.” ‘‘Silence is golden” (writes a correspondent of the “Times” at Petone), “especially in a public library, but this maxim is evidently not carried out in the Petone Public Library. Between the hours of .eight and nine to-night people reading in tlie public room were treated to a constant chatter of conversation between several young ladies Of all places a library is the one where strict silence ’ should be observed. One young Indy confidently informed the other that she had three cups oft tea a day, including one about four o’clock, and then immediately switched on to the subject of dress, and how she bought, a dresa foi and so on. For an. hour this babble of conversation went on. All very intereating no doubt to the parties concerned, out how about tho poor people who wish to spend a quiet hour reading! And in a public libabry of all places 1”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 3
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156IN A LIBRARY New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 3
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