CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 211, 12 September 1870, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We are not responsible for our Correspondents'

opinions

MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE. To the Editor of the Evening Star

"None but full members shall have votes.

Sib, —Such i 3 the purport of an advertisement of a meeting proposed to be held to-morrow evening, of the subscribers to the above Institution. What is a full member? I pay the full amount of the subscription required of me for the privilege I require, that of reading the newspapers ; but I do not require the use of books from the library, and therefore do not pay for their use. But I do not think that I (and others) should be entirely ignored when a question, like that proposed to be considered on Tuesday evening, arises, which nflVcta my (and others') interest or convenience so materially. The manngers of the institution may depend upon it that liberal views towards all clashes of subscribers will in the enrl tend most towards the prospi'riiy of the Institution. A short time biufie a letter appeared in one of the daily journals, sneering at a correspondent who had made some complaint of the manner in which he had been treated in the institution, calling him " a farthing-a-day subscriber," and intimating that he was under great obligation to him, " a full subscriber," and therefore it was great presumption in him to make any complaint at all.

Now whether I subscribe a farthing or a half-penny a day is a matter of choice, perhaps dictated by reasons of economy or convenience. lam equally or rather doubly in the latter case indebted to that cleeymosynary aid from without, lacking which our institution must soon fall. May £1 therefore hope that cur rulers will see the necessity of cultivating the convenience ,and good will of all the subscribers without distinction, and the wishes of even farthing-a-day subscribers respected and listened to. —Yours, &c,

A Fabthing a Day.