RANGIORA INSTITUTE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16150, 2 March 1918, Page 10

RANGIORA INSTITUTE.

, — ; ANNUAL .MEETING. 'orty-elsth annual meeting o£ ■ sub--to the Rangiora mtarary institute 1 laet evening. The attendance was I. Jennings (president), who was in ir, reported "that the Institute had ced a very successful year, the memand income from subscriptions to the constituting a record. The revenue e hall had also been much, larger ual, a]|&augli only a very nominal had been mode for patriotio enterta. The : balance-sheet showed the to have been £263 16s lOd, includsoriptions to library £50 17s 6d, hall 58 4s, and Borough Council subsidy s) £30, and the expenditure £177 0s .ving a credit balance of £86 16s 9d, pared £37 16s 4d at the oomant of the year. ' The chief items oi lure were:—New books £38 £s 7d, es and papdra £2? 6s lid, librarian's S3, and li-bting and fuel £22 17s 8d anoe-aheet was adopted. brarian. reported that in other yean >een possible to pick out a book thai a the chief favourite, but In the pasi had been impossible to discriminate tad been quite an rnflmr of now a great many of whose books were ibbish. The books of Ethel Dfil, 'iver, Gertrude Page, and. numerous n authors were well read, but there outstanding book or author. At th« g of the war books written on th« a eagerly read, but the readers SOOE sfied, and now they were seldom r. Magazines were still being purrom the. reading-room, or mutilated, weekly papens were often cut and sen away. >f thanks were passed to the retiring also to tlie librarians, Mr and Mrs mg, «nd to the auditor, Mr J. B also to .the' Borough Council for raal subsidy. * lowing officers were electedChairtreasurer, Mr C. I. Jennings; ion, Mr H., Ball; auditor, Mr J. B general, committee, Messrs T W E. Barton, H. Cobden-Coz, W. J. O.Josling, E. B. Good, P. Keir, nmngham, W. J. Young, W. A. id Kev. W. H. Howes; book-pur-ammittee, the chairman, secretary, . W. Ambrose. tecided to forward. a letter of tb*TiVq pr®6® w «ll for his past servioes as of the committee.