ABSTRACTION OF BOOKS FROM PUBLIC LIBRARY.
To the Editor of the, Akaroa Mail,
Sib, —I desiiv, by your kind permission, to call attention to a notice appearing in another column to ,the effect that any person, being a non-subscriber, who may take books away from the Public Library will be prosecuted for larceny. This step has become necessary by its being known that certain persons abstract books who do not help the Institute wiih the moderate subscription that would make them members, thus abusing the liberality shown by Subscribers in allowing the books to remain open all day to the public for reading within the building. It would be much to be regretted if the practice of abstracting books should compel the Committee to close them in, as their being open is not only a great-advantage to residents but a boon to visitors to the seaside who are mainly dependent upon reading for the passing of their leisure hours. I shall be mueli obliged, therefore, to anyone who will kindly help to check the practice referred to by giving me the names of any future offenders. Yours, &0., W. H. HENNINQ, Hon. Secretary. Akarba Literary Institute, May 27.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 194, 28 May 1878, Page 3
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198ABSTRACTION OF BOOKS FROM PUBLIC LIBRARY. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 194, 28 May 1878, Page 3
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