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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1863, 24 September 1913, Page 8

Last - year an amount of £4000 was distributed by the Government among libraries, and a condition attached to the grant of a subsidy is tliat all tho money must bo expended in the purchase of ibooks.- .In all 408 'liberies received subsidies. But an analysis of tho books added to .tho public libraries during the year indicates that 81.5 per cent, of the books purchased during the Inst year wore novels. If tho additions made by the largo libraries at Auckland, One}i un ; oiv Plymouth, Pill inor ston Northj Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, "VVestport, Christchurch, Timaru, and Oamaru aro not included tho proportion of novels is 89 per cent. Ono hundred tind twent.y-thveo public libraries purchased no books other than fiction.

Mr. "W. E. Sims, of tho money order branch of the Blenheim post offico, has been transferred to Christchurch on promotion.

Tho death of Captain Erikson (president of tho Auckland Coastal Masters' Association) took place on Saturday at tho comparatively early ago of 56 years. Ho leaves a widow and a grown-up family of fivo children.