WANTED A LIBRARY !

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 571, 28 July 1909, Page 8

WANTED A LIBRARY !

PARNELL APPEALS TO MR. CARNEGIE;

(By,'Teioi:ro'pli--Spcclal .CorrosDondent.)

:A'Some? timeago/Parnell/.-boing without a public library,: aridywithin }Ttmr, visible: / and measurable/ distance (of obtaining .one,' lost heart ..as a. corporation,: and apparently ,deputed ..'a i privato-.citizen' interested-'in; the matter to;,try;his.luck',;with Mr...Carnegio on behalf 'of the borough for: the wherewithal ■to,erect a;library;/ ! Thb'gentleman.in question, posted a plan on an; application- for lielp :to, the-''.owner., of Skibo '■Castle/' tho Town Clerk's name, being sighed'at the bottom of the missive..:.L'ast : night;'tho council received-' :an/'answer.-;' 'The letter rani—"¥ou: do hot ■say' whether -Parnell .has any library'ac'com--1 modatibn now or whether;it is separate in government .from Auckland. There' is no statement a& to what the cost of tho building would be for which you enclose , plan." Several were wrathful. "Mr. .'Carnegie".;':will "think that:; We' are a' pretty. i™m : . council,'','remarked one,/and another■ "made 'anxious inquiry as.to what/further icicchief might be afoot; This 'produced the .information that only a 'fortnight back the council had given its deputy representative .permission to-send another .letter along_ to -hasten"'the answer to the first. - '•Stop- ,-t,' cried councillors'in a breath, v Too; late; Here's a line.-from the writer, -it," said-the Town.Clerk,, and tbo council decided to send another.'otterv 'bv the quickest mailiroute in pursuit for the council's credit' sake/aad'-.sundry-, ieaaona.