While the population of Croydon, a suburb of London. Las doubled in &58 years, the subscribers to the puolic library, one of the best-managed institutions in Great Britain have increased five-fold. A novel, Croydon finds, can be read b'v 127 different people before it has io be “ scrapped." Hi is moans that it is possible to provide a reader with one book every week for the -whole years atn total cost to th e library of 2s 7d. “Good Kina Wenccslas.’’ of carol fajne, wee an actual king—of Bohemia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 9
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89Page 9 Advertisements Column 5 Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 9
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