WAITARA NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 99, 11 May 1901, Page 2

WAITARA NOTES.

(prom our own correspondent). " After many daya " or rather years, their is at last a profpect of a Public Library pnd Reading-room in this highly progressive township! Tt i* something like four years ago since the proposal was originally started, so that 1 ■ may fairly be claimed that a re»sonab'o amount of time has be:n spent in discussing the subject. It will be remembered that aboub two or threo months ago a poll to borrow a fu-n of XSOO for the purpose indicated above wa< lost, but Mr. Hignott brought the mater up in a new form it the April meeting of the Board, and his proposals are now assuming defini'e shape. The trustee < of the Waitara Institute, a buildirg which is manly used for meetings of the Masonic have agreed to substaut : ally help the proposals by making a free gift of the prop-rty ti the Town Board under curtain conditio s, to be held in trus". for the benefit of' the inhabitants of the town, and a deei willsh:rily be drawn' up to give effect to the transfer. The old bui'ding known as the Waitara Insti'uta will ba duo time t~> a convenient s c ioa adjoining the Po9t Office in the busioess block of the town, and it is proposed that a suitable frontage *houli be erected by the Town Boar J. A fiir am uut of rev. nue i* likely to ba forthcoming to maintain the inbtitution, and it is hoped that all will work together to maki the affair a success. It his baen agt ave reflection up n the town th*t for so many y.ars past there has been absolutely no place of the kind for the banefit of th) rising generation, who have Ik en compelled to seek amusement and recreation in oth-r directions which, occasionally, may not hivu been so profitable, and the establishment of the Library and R-ading Room will undoubtedly hav'e very beneficial results. Mr. Symes address the electors here to-night.