CLYDE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 11, 19 January 1870, Page 5

CLYDE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

A public meeting of subscribers and others was held in the library-room, adjoining the Council Chamber, on Saturday last, " to receive the report of the retiring Committee, and for the election of a new Committee in their stead." The attendance was not numerous. Mr Hazlett was voted to the chair, and called upon Mr Cambridge, the hon. Secretary, to explain the j-osition of the library.—Mr Cambridge stated that the retiring Committee had been from various causes unable to make any progress during the past year. They had been until recently without a room of any kind in which to keep the broks, ami although he (the Secretary) had endeavoured in some measure to obviate the difficulty by keeping the library on his own premises, the subscriptions had fallen off, and the affairs of the institution were in a very unsatisfactory condition. The Committee had, however, recently been granted the use of the old Council Chamber for the purposes of the library, and it was most desirable that steps should at once be taken to get the library again into working order. There was no report to be submitted, because nothing had been done worth reporting ; and the Committee for want of a quorum, had not held a meeting for over twelve months. Mr Fache, the hon. treasurer, regretted the circumstances which had retarded the progress of the library during the past twelve months, but trusted that a united effort would now be made to place it on a more substantial and satisfactory footing than it had hitherto been. The Chairman urged upon the meeting the importance of electing to the new Committee i men who would take an interest in the improvemont of the library ; and trusted that, as the difficulty in regard to a library-room had now been overcome, every citizen would lend his aid in making the public library what it ought to j-vJie. J A vote of thanks was uuanimously passed to Mr Cambridge for his kindness in taking charge of the books and performing the duties of librarian during the past year. The Chairman took the opportunity to remark that very few men would have taken the same amount of trouble with the library as Mr Cambridge had done, and that gentleman deserved the best thanksnf the public for his services.—Mr Cambridge briefly acknowledged the compliment. Thjljtation of a new Committee then occupied , the attention of the meeting. The following ' gentlemen were duly proposed and seconded, viz. : Messrs. J. Hazlett, R. Barlow, J. U. Cambridge, T. George, V. Pyke, G. Fache, G -Uueston, W. Grindley,. W. M'Kcown, and «*— M'Pherson. A ballot was taken, which Pasultod in the election of the seven first-named candidates.