NEW LIBRARY OPENED.
King Performs Ceremony at Manchester. British Official W'reless. RUGBY, July 17. The King and the Queen were enthusiastically welcomed by great crowds when they visited Manchester to open the new Central Library, which accommodates 1,000,000 volumes and cost £425,000 to build.
When performing the opening ceremony the King said that the library was the largest in Britain provided by a local authority. He remarked: ‘.‘At no time were the demands upon the civic spirit of local communities more than they are to-day, and in no department of our national life is the spirit of public service more clearly manifested than in the sphere of local government.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 1
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