OUR PUBLIC READING ROOM.
To the Editor of the Olooe. Fir, —For eome time past the public reading room at our library has been in a disgraceful state, though it is not the fault of the custodian. I was greatly pleased at the beginning of the week to see a carpenter very busy pulling down the old desks, with their well worn and faded green baize coverings, and I naturally thought they were going to give us new ones; but, on going there last night, I was greatly disappointed : three cf the old desks and baize still remain with abo'-t twelve inches taken eff them, to save expense of new covering. A new half desk is up at one end, and a new desk at the other; the latter is perfectly useless, as at night you cannot read one side of it if it wa« to save your life. There is a great difference in oar room and the one at Wellington, where you can see the papers there filed for months beck. Our room has no Melbourne " Leader " or " Australasian " this week, Is it so badly off that they cannot afford them ? CONSTANT READER.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2510, 25 April 1882, Page 3
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195OUR PUBLIC READING ROOM. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2510, 25 April 1882, Page 3
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