LIBRARY RESTORED.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17762, 9 December 1929, Page 5

LIBRARY RESTORED.

AT SEDDONVILLE. (Bv Telegraph. —Press Association.) v y WESTPORT, Dec. 9.

The Seddonville library, which recently was destroyed by the flood following, the earthquake on June 17, was officially re-opened by Mr Holland on Saturday afternoon. Congratulatory messages were read from the Prime Minister, the Minister ol Mines and Education, the PostmasterGeneral and the High Commissiimerelect (Mr Wilford).

Speeches were delivered by Cr Niven and Mr Jas. Simpson, chairman of the Library Committee, in eulogy of Mr Holland’s successful appeal for books to replace those destroyed- by the flood. It was announced that between 2000 and 3000 volumes had been donated by various libraries and individual citizens. Among the new books is a set of up-to-date works on coal mining, the gift of the Mines Department. Local residents raised sufficient : funds with a, grant of £SO from the Mines Department to pay in full for the erection of the new library building. To mark Seddonville’s appreciation of Mr Holland’s effort, the institution has been named . the H. E. Holland Public Library. ~"~ At Saturday’s gathering Mr. Holland was nresented with a. silver-mounted walking stick, suitably inscribed.