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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2607, 17 July 1923, Page 3

(To The Editor.) Sir, —I don’t think any good purpose is served by “throwing off” at the new Council Chambers by your correspondent. “Progress.” T.he spending of the insurance money from the old Council Chamber, library and public reading room on the present building had the sanction of the Municipal Association’s solicitor, and although the Council may have committed a fault, if not a breach of faith, in excluding the library and reading room, there was no public protest against their action. To have erected a more imposing building to include library, reading room etc, a loan of at least £2,Q00 would have had to be sanctioned and the Council did not think such a proposal would have been carried but the views of the ratepayers were not first obtained. In my opinion, sir, the Council should have submitted the question to the ratepayers before taking the action they did. But what’s the use of crying over spilt milk. I believe a Ratepayers’ Association is to be formed and when this comes into existence it can get the feeling of the ratepayers on the subject of a -public reading room, library and rest room for women. —Yours, etc., RATEPAYER,