SEDDONVILLE LIBRARY
RESTORATION AFTER FLOOD
(li>- Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WESTPOBT, This Day.
Tho Seddonville Library, which was recently destroyed by flood following tho earthquake in June, was officially reopened by Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., on Saturday afternoon. Congratulatory messages were read from the Prime Minister, Minister of Mines, Minister of Education, tho Postmaster-General, and tho High Commissioner-Elect, Mr. Wilford. Speeches were delivered by Councillor Niven and Mr. Jas. Simpson, chairman of tho library committee, in eulogy of Mr. Holland's successful appeal for books to replace those destroyed by the flood. It was announced that between 2000 and 3000 volumes had been donated by various libraries and individual citizens. Among tho new books was a set of up-to-date works on coal-mining, a gift of the Mines Department. Local residents raised sufficient funds with a grant of £50 from the Mines Department to pay in full for the erection of the new library building. To mark Seddonville's appreciation of Mr. Holland's effort, the institution had been named the H. E. Holland Public Library. At Saturday's gathering Mr. Holland was presented with a silvermounted walking stick, suitably inscribed.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 12
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