VALUABLE BEQUEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 2

VALUABLE BEQUEST

TO WHANGAREI LIB&ARy TRANSLATIONS OF DUMAS I from Our Own Correspondent t WHANGAREI, ToVcv for some time past members Q f n. ' library committee of the \Vh*m ff Borough Council have been in •& nation with Mr. F. W. Reed f ierence to a very generous 1 has proposed to make to the?c£!L h * 1 in trust for the Whangarei Tik n< ' ll I Sbme time ago Mr. Reed preset 1 valuable collection or Dumas? » P to the Auckland Library on conditions, one of which was | should l.e preserved for all time L' s I fireproof building, and onlv ones , use by Dumas readers and r °- I At the time of making the bequVsa'V l Reed generously acquainted the i 1 * r ’ I mittee members, who fully re< < ’ that such a collection of intern character should be housed in •» lonal versify city, where it would available to the largest numvSr me students, and accessible to traveli.** DumaS^works the . works into English which not been done. He made the tran.i tions in duplicate, and the orleSiV will go to Auckland, but the will be included in Mr Reed’s n 8 freed bequest to the Whang^ Mr. Reed is offering to the Whan*, rei Borough Council the remainder his very valuable library under tettJl reasonable -conditions and Though this gift is made at sent time, the library committee do? not. of course, come into immedi-T possession of this valuable collection