The Opportunist

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 524, 29 November 1928, Page 13

The Opportunist

Street Book Bin is Old Man ’s Library PREE reading at ponsonby Moving through the soft twiliEht of n summer evening comes "r man. Two or three tatmagazines are tucked under his arm. Hr wanders along Ponsonby Road until, near All Saints’ Church, he os beside a large white book bin, Ut there by a charitable organisation co Uect literature for solitary light"usemtn. returned soldiers and looks at the unobtrusve old man with quiet approval. lie '• evidently going to deposit his offeria the bin. Xone of your pretenrbus charity for him—such modest *ifts are more fittingly made under i,vcr of kindly darkness. Glancing carefully round, to see that ke is unobserved, the •’philantrophist” nlaces his magazines, not in the mouth jv the bin. but on top of it. Then, his Leve rolled up. he reaches inside the slot with bis thin hand and wrist and -Tikes out several books and papers. Hastily tie scans them, rejecting some ind pulling out others in their place until, his taste satisfied, he pushes the unwanted books with the magazines lie bill l himself brought with him, back into the bin. Another hasty glance round, and away he trots down the road, considerably quicker than he came. Why these bins are not cleared when full it is difficult to imagine, unless they have been forgotten. However, while they remain overflowing, a con - enient free library is established for ut least one opportunist. isubscripcion: .Nothing. Hours: Whenever the jubscrtber chooses to make his call.