COUNTRY LIBRARIES
NEW SERVICE INAUGURATED SYSTEM OF EXCHANGES (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 30. Designed to improve country libraries throughout the Dominion by interchanging among them wellselected and up-to-date books supplied from a central stock, the Country Library Service was inaugurated today by the Prime Minister (Mr M. J. Savage) at a gathering in his rooms at Parliament Buildings. The service is to replace the present system of subsidies to country libraries. There were present representatives of the Education Department, the Womens Division of the Farmers’ Union, the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the Drama'League and the New Zealand Library Association, The two vans, which have been specially built for the service, were inspected before the ceremony. One will tour the South Island and the other the North Island. Two trained librarians, members of the service, will drive them, distributing and later exchanging the books.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 12
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