THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHERONICLE. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1913.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 May 1913, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHERONICLE. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1913.

THE PUBLIC LIBBARY.

There are few institutions in a district that have a greater claim for support than a public library. The educational power of such an institution is of great advantage to a community, providing the library is well equipped and accessible to everybody in its vicinity. The local library pretty well fills these conditions. There are numerous and valuable educative books on the shelves, and the subscription either quarterly or for a longer period is so small that it is a hardship to nobody to become a subscriber. The more revenue the Library Committee get and the more books they can purchase. The wisdom of making the library as highly efficient as possible is beyond question; there are few people indeed who do not value education, of which reading may be truly claimed to be the foundation. As Bacon remarks : " Heading makeththc full man " ; " Beading is converse with the wise." And on libraries the same author says : " Libraries, which arc as the 'shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." The best that has been thought and said in the world can be learned by reading; and v culture is reading." The Library Committee want an increased revenue to successfully carry dn the work they have undertaken, and on Friday evening a concert will be held for this purpose. We commend the cause as a most deserving one, and we hope the concert promoters will meet with the desired success.