CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1721, 13 March 1895, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Under no circumstances whatever-is the Editor responsib'e for matter c intained in correspondence ]

(to the Editor.)

Sir. —Owing to ill-health I have had occasionally to visii Te Aroha for the benefit of its baths and rest. Your Library in the Park is one you should bo proud of. hut I have experienced on several, Saturdays and Sundays instead of it being a place of quiet retreat it is a seat of larrikinism and noise. Troops of children over-run the Reading room, turning over the books, many too young to read but to look at the pictures. I have seen the. pages of some books deliberately torn and bindings injured, .on week days after school I have seon a mob of children troop in with greasy hands from their lunch, and you cau imagirie the effect upon the hooks they handle. On Sunday last there were some young men ? evidently illiterate and half drunk who could not read, they asked questions from the children, the language they used Avas vile. I think the police should watch for these larrikins. Ladies bad to retire. I would suggest the cases containing the books bo always locked, no books be left on the tables, and if any resident or visitor wishes to read a book let him have it upon signing for it, not to be taken out of the Park. That children of tender years be not allowed into the Reading room, and that silence be enforced therein, notices being placed about the room requesting persons not to disturb others reading. Also for the police for som9 few Saturdays and Sundays and afterwards to visit and arrest any person using obscene language such as I have heard; the presence of a policeman would keep order.—lam., etc.,

Visitor.