LIBRARY OPENED AT SEDDONVILLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 2

LIBRARY OPENED AT SEDDONVILLE.

REPLACES BUILDING DESTROYED BY FLOOD. Per Press Association. WESTPORT, December 9. A new Seddonville library, to replace the building which was destroyed by the flood following the earthquake on June 17, was officially opened by Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., on Saturday afternoon. Congratulatory messages were read from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Mines (the Hon W. A. Veitch), Minister of Education (the Hon H. Atmore), the PostmasterGeneral (the Hon J. B. Donald), and the High Commissioner elect (the Hon T. M. Wilford). Speeches were delivered, by Councillor Niven and Mr James Simpson, chairman of the Library Committee, in eulogy of Mr Holland’s successful appeal for books to replace those destroyed in the flood. It was announced that- between 2000 and 3000 volumes had been donated by various libraries and individual citizens. Among the new books were a set of up-to-date works on coal-mining, the gift of the Mines Department. The 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, and at Saturday’s gathering Mr Holland was presented with a silver-mounted walking stick, suitably inscribed.