A TECHNOLOGICAL LIBRARY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 7

A TECHNOLOGICAL LIBRARY

—9 ESTABLISHMENT PROPOSED BY MINISTER. "I realise'most fully that the very foundation; of scientific research in New Zealand must be a first-class technological HbrarVj" said the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. G. W. Russell) yesterday at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Board of Science and Art. "Unless such a library is established there will be danger of the_ neces-sary-work of scientific research in •'•his country being hampered seriously. " "I have been considering with the Under-Secretary for Internal Atfairs whether it is possible for us, out of the £500 set aside for'use by the New Zealand Institute for scientific research, to make a substantial grant towards the cost of creating a technological library. There may be legal difficulties in the way, but if so I hope to have them surmounted. If the Audit Department is prepared to support my action I propose to 6et aside a sum of £250 as' a start for the establishment of this library. "A scientific and technological library is in existence already in connection with the Patent Office, which is controlled by the Minister of Justice, end I propose to discuss with my colleague the desirability of that library being made available' as a part of the large* library."' The New Zealand Institute bad already promised to hand over its valuable technical and scientific library to the Government as soon as a suitable fireproof building was provided.