MINERS’ LIBRARIES
NEGLECTED COLLECTIONS IN CENTRAL OTAGO SUGGESTION BY MINISTER (Special to THE SUN) 11U X EDIN”, Monday. Hundreds o£ leather-bound volumes o£ fiction, history, mining and science lie mouldering on the shelves o£ libraries in some o£ the old mining towns of Central Otago. The library buildings themselves are often leaky and dilapidated. At Skippers, Bannockburn, Macetown and other centres are to be found excellent collections with which the miners of 50 years ago used to while away long winter evenings. Their cosmopolitan nature is shown in the variety and quality of reading available. . these books, which, apparently it is no one’s duty or desire to look after should be distributed or should be added to the Turnbull Library was the suggestion made by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, when visiting Alexandra. He promised to bring the suggestion before tne Minister of Mines, the Hon. W. A. \eitch.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 686, 11 June 1929, Page 16
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