THE SO-CALLED FREE LIBRARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14005, 14 September 1909, Page 7

THE SO-CALLED FREE LIBRARY.

To the Editor of the ' 1 Timaru llerajd." ,■3,1-, —lour Jcaucr ' 111 ♦•Jtloiald" .nettling with tuo pnDiic ii«■j'iti v oy-laws. snuulcl interest liiu wliOie reuuing community. It is .inconccivaoto iur ever' nu«iiucu ins gut to tue peopic of 'innarii to be iic<igi!tt rouutl by jsucli harassing regulations in connection witu. the lenuing department. It is a "iurther proof or die uvil eliects of liasty municipal legislation. More time ami carc should unUoubtedly liuvebeen giventothe 1 railing or tueso by-laws! Xne itf-iav: ueain,jr Hvitli tbq. lending department of tne library especially, is most illiberal* and-obnoxious, reeking of red tape in every line. The ratepayer aud his wife,.after no little ;foramlir.y arc duly enrolled, but whafcabout their sons and daughters? Guarantors for their honesty aud good conduct must be found, to enable them to participate in Mr Carnegie's gift at a cost of ten .sliillings yearly. But what stretch of imagination can this institution bo called a free library? It's, a inisni.nier. \Under the old Mechanics' Institute rules, twenty shillings annually, provided reading . matjter for, anv household in Timaru.—l ifrit, etc., DISSATISFIED. :, 'SOSIE ONE HAS Btt?KDimKD> To the Editor of the. "Timaru Herald." • Sir, your,issue of Tuesday last, the 7tli:inst.,' : i observed a letter oii the subject of stook threshing wliidi pur--ported to bo-the opinions of *'i?\ J. Wallace." ...... .1 presume you., .-printed- that letter ou my whose initials .are "I''. T." Wallace, and that for . tome reason best known to yourself, 1 * you took the libcrty _of substituting your composition for. minp. , I have not the.least doubt-tb it t'you arc emiuently qualified to write an t pinion on any subject whatever, but I do object, to .my name being printed as the author of those opinions.—l etc., ■ ... V . ' iF. T. WALLACE." Kiangii J'oaka. Hook, r , Waimate, 10th Sept., 1909. ; [Mr F. T. Wallace lias a peculiar way fi writing his signature, which goes far to excuse the priuter's' error in reading it. Sir Wallace lias also a peculiar memory; /-His letter was-pub-lisbed ivord; for word, so-iflir as.it dealt with its profossed subiectv ing. The "blue pencil" was put through two Words of satirical meaning applied toMr /Scanncll, in one ; place, and twei linesjTof the same-kind in another.—Ed. T.H.]