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Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3006, 11 January 1923, Page 6

School teachers, are people with active minds who must always be reading to refresh their brains. This, dr something like it, was a remark made by a representative of the Taranaki Herald to the librarian of the New Plymouth public library. The- librarian dissented!, and, after a rapid calculation, decided that of all the teachers in the secondary and primary schools of the town and districts, only four men and women spent 10/ a year in subscribing to the library. It is a severe reflection on the teaching profession that its members should be so illiterate, for the library is the only place where people ,of moderate means can secure access to books they cannot afford to buy.