Local Sources of Entertainment.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 3

Local Sources of Entertainment.

THB EDITOR OF THE *BH.DING STAB- ,, Sißj— The communicated article under the »bore. heading in your last Saturday's impression is, I consider, very apropos. To come to the point, it shows the necessity which has long been felt for some kind 'of 'provision' being made for union r and 1 interchange of ideas and suggestions , im6ig ! th'oie miefefeted' in local recrej 'll£ion's kn ! d amusements.' What we want A* _!PJBe kind of institute, combining library; ' reading-room, \ and rooms for classes and meetings of various kinds. The barraelts, now being painted and renorated, would make a very suitable place, and here each separate society, club, or committee might liave its office and place of meeting. As it is there is no ploee but one of the hotels, a meeting at which. i 6, without attempting to moralise, open to some objection, so much «o . that some persons will not attend the meetings when held there. I simply throw out a general idea of what is needed; points of detail will, of -course, naturally suggest themselves in plenty. As to what the article says about the "honorary" secretary, and the frequent blame of failure— too often without reason — being thrown upon him, thete i» a good deal in that. " Poor Secretary!" lie often gets more kicks than half-pence,- and I have heard some .of „ them cay they would rather do any- * thine than hold that post again. Your hint about brevity, however, in your ..loot-note to "Citizen's" last letter now occurs to me, so I must conclude. — I am, &o. t 3? ION -