Correspondence.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 12809, 17 March 1905, Page 8

Correspondence.

; ftu are uui itiapwuiHou- lur cue opUi ions oxprenshviU tr> vorr«spuad«nth. i'iiH wruer a utum, iab a. guturttnttfw of good faith, mum be ouwloneU It. the letter). aunt: lahg-Ii; ly-rADP.VLi room. To the Editor. Siry— '.May tt visitor Lo \ vnir .own !.i' permitted to call attt-ntion to what mii^t have lony been a : -lalter oi surprise to not a few, nani :ly, the cojtim'odiously large road'ng room, but tho tal".l"s oi which are occupied solely with newspaper*', and not a <opy of a pictoriul magazine to bo seen! Such n sight is indeed a unique one. for go to any ordinary-sized town and in its free reading-room you uiay always see at Jeast one table sot apart lor illustrated magazines. it is this latter which usually forms the o'-uet attraction for youth and young" men, and m> reading-room can be accounted a success unless it attracts within its walls (his class. To-day ihe S. Gift Association has temporarily siif plied the lack by donating- n dozen or more instructive magazines to th< % tables, but surely something more permanent might be arranged by the managers, and. too, at a very comparatively snrall cost.' — 1 fin, etc., S. HOl'T. (Audi land).