SCHOOLMASTERS' LIBRARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2127, 28 November 1868, Page 3

SCHOOLMASTERS' LIBRARY.

To the. Editor of the Otago Daily Times.

Sin—ln to-day's issuo of the Times, a lotter appears complaining that suitable accommodation for the Schoolmasters' Library has not been provided by the Executive. I consider your correspondent most unreasonable in supposing that a large room of the Government building should be expressly devoted for the accommodation of a few score of dry educational works. Upon tho arrival of the books, the Secretary of the Education Board promptly unpacked and placed them in a convenient apartment containing educational apparatus. This accommodation would be amply sufficient for any ordinary library.

But how have they acted in connexion with this erudite Library ] Why, without over looking at the catalogue to sco whether the books sent for by a Government bonus and their own subscriptions had arrived or not. Some showed a peculiarly correct and enlightened example, pouncing upon the most suitable for their perusal, ignoring the equal right and claim of their less favoured brethren in the country. It would have leen thought that men bo exact would have, at all events, waited until the books were labelled and numbered.

It was much against the desire of tho Secretary of the Education Board that the books were thus unceremoniously carried away without receiving the manipulation requisite for their preservation.—l am, &o!, A. B.