TE KUITI LIBRARY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 116, 17 December 1908, Page 2

TE KUITI LIBRARY.

Building Scheme Discussed. A public meeting was held in the "Chronicle" office on Monday evening last for the purpose of receiving and discussing the report of the committee appointed to draft a scheme for erectim; a suitable' building on the site donated by Mr Darrow. Mr W. R. Franklin occupied the chair and read the report of the committee which was as .follows: We have instituted enquiries''as to (In feasibility and cost of building a Library and Reading Room, which will be, not only a little more sightly, but also with the advancing prosperity of the (own, a credit to some extent, to the place. An estimate of a building containing a reading room 30 x 30 feet with a library 18 x 30 feet, and two offices in front, was estimated to cost about £4OO, which the committee thought too costly, and a reduced plan of a building with the reading room 22 x 30 feet and library lift. 6in. x 12 feet with the same sized front offices, resulted in obtaining an estimate at about £350, which the committee thought practicable. It is proposed to raise this sum by endeavouring to get practical citizens to subscribe, say, £2OO in debentures of, say L'l each, payable out of such funds as may be realised from the results of the offices, and the use of the reading room for meetings, etc., and the balance on mortgage. It was decided to make a with a veiw to raising from £IOO to £l5O by debentures, after which the remaining sum necessary could be obtained on mortgage.