THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 9 November 1906, Page 2

THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY.

The Carnegie committee, shorn ol its chance iu soar high in the heavens with a b.g loan proposal, Iras returned to earth, and in a very quiei and sensibly worakd jrepoit recommends the Council to erect the Carnegie Library on the site adjoining the I own Hall. The gojniiiUiee ha s j of course, been forced into the position. The tactics adopted in meetings delayed matters, and then, when it seemed likely that further delay would be caused by tho decision <1 ihe Council to refer the matter to the ratepayers for their disapproval, the selected site was withdrawn. The next meeting was informal, and abortive. Tiieij the loan proposals were published, and with that ended all immediate chance of raising a loan for (he purchase of a site. x'he procrastinating and to some folk inexplicab'e methods of a section of the Counc ; i has saved the burgessqs the expense of a poll, and the borrowing scheme lias been nipped in the bud without die intervention of the ratepayers. Whilst it may be advisable to have a library out of the heart of the town, it is certainly not desirable to further pile up the local taxation, and the Carneg;e committee is to be commended for at last getting to work on bedrock, economical lines to obtain the Carnegie grant of No more time should be lost, or the burgesses may find the millionaire has changed his mind, and by grasping; at tile big-site-shadow, the committee may have lost to tho Ratepayers the Iwne, in the sjiape of tho ,£2500 grant, ihe Cavnegio business has occupied enough time already, and it is to be hoped there will bo no factious oppo. sition to the proposal to erOQt (he building on the municipal property next the Town Hall^

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