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Dunstan Times, Issue 1064, 15 September 1882, Page 2

In reply to Mr. Daniels, who asked the Colonial Secretary if there will he any subsidy to libraries this year, Mr. Dick replied that the House ha! voted £6ouo for li: raries, and that sura, he beli< ved, -would he available. As to the probable proportion, his view of the matter was that each library Committee sending in a claim would have ad-'ed to the amount of their subscriptions the sum of £25 a) an additional subscription, >o that the larg- libraries would get no more in that respect than the small ones, and when they had done that, the uion- y might be divided proportionately amongst the different libraries. That was : a library which had subscriptions to the amount of i 5 he would consider to have a subscription to the amount of £3O ; a library, the subscription to which amount* 1 to £25, be would consider to have had subscriptions to the amount of £SO, and so give the small libraries a chance of being properly benefited.—ln the face of the above we most unhesitatingly advise that all library committees should bring to book all their detective subscribers, and urge upon them to pay up, not only their due subscriptions but their arrears, so as to put them in a good position to make their demands upon the vote. We will make no invidnons distinctions, but we are aware of some committees who are not supported to the cxt»nt they deserve in making their libraries the useful institutions they should be, o>- tb t. is the evident desire of the Legislature that they may he.