LEVIN PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 June 1916, Page 3

LEVIN PUBLIC LIBRARY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,' —Kmdily allow me space in your paper for a lew remarks re "Tthe Free Public Library," Levin. It in open ed to the publio at 10.<10 a.m. On entering it at -that time this morning 1 whs surprised to iind cleaning operationij going on in the reading-room; smelly thwt ought not to be? Glancing round the reading-room one %eoa "ancient history" in the form of Do mininon, December 191s; Daily Mirror jjs far back as April, 1915; U.o S. Cp.'t. time-table November, 1913; wiiil'' only the last two or three copies of the Weekly Press, Auckland Weekly, the Town and; Country Journal (Sydney) are to bo found on the tables. Then. in the landing department the way the .books are arranged or disarranged or the shelves, the ragged, dirty condition of some of them, only fit for the lire, is disgraceful. >Surely, I paste a back on a book is included in the of caretaker; it ought to be. Where are the library committee P I wonder when last they visited the library in their official capacity. In the by-laws relating to the library T notice "no bicycle to be taken inside,' y«t I saw one in the entrance, f say that the library at present is no credit "to the Borougjh Council iLSb'rary Committee, or its servant- Thanking vou in anticipation.—l .n, etc., E. PALMER. Oxford-street, Levin, June 21st.