The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1914.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 April 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1914.

New Zealand's Parliament Library is a wouderfully complete institution in respect of books of real literary value. Numerically, too, it is greater than most other libraries in Australia. '.'here is a system of recess privileges in connection with this library that makes its books available to students and others who have no working connection with Parliament. Unfortunately, though, people residing out. of \YeHington have not the same privileges and iaeilities that dwellers in the metropolis possess. That mailer should be remedied by the Parliamentary .Toint Library Committee, lor tlie library being nationally owned should be nalional in its privileges. The system under which Members of Parliament receive from the library boxes of books by rail or post should be extended for benefit of country residents whose rights are on a parity with those of the privilege holders in Wellington. Truth to toll, it is a Catholic list that ranges from Covernmcnt employees to grocers and warehousemen to military officers. As a testimony to New Zealand's demoeratisation even of privileges the full list is worthy of republication, and -we cull it from the latest report of the Parliamentary Librarian :—The vocations of the 478 ordinary recess-privilege holders are as follow: Ciovernment employees, 23 : Civil servants, 77; barristers and solicitors, 1(>; commercial men- agents. 15; law clerks, 17; clerks, 25; secretaries, .'57 ; bank clerks, 25 : insurance clerks, 2 ; 1: estate agent. I—total, 173: importers, ■}: boot-importer, 1; draper, 1; grocer, 1; warehouseman, 1: private means, 78; hotel employees, 2; merchants, 2; doctors, 5; chemists, 2; masseurs, 2; dent-is!s, 2; nurses, 3; artisans, u; caretaker, 1 : gardener. 1 : labourer, 3 ; Harbour Board officials, M ; architects, 3: civil and marine engineers, 4 ; domestic duties, 17; musicians, 2; visitors, 2: clergymen, 10; School Inspector, 1 ; Native Land Court Judge, 1: staid - enis, 10: journalists. •>: surveyors, 3: photographers ,2: artists, 5 ; art students, 5 : officer, 1. _ The books issued to the privilegeholders come mainly under the following heads: Biography, history, voyages and travels, science, pretrv, and belles lettres. No iiction was issued save to persons on the full-privilege list. Differently coloured tickets were issued, in accordance with the instructions of the Joint Committee, to ihe two classes of privilege-bolder^.