OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
THE BOROUGH LIBRARY (To the Editor.) Sir, —Last week, by seven votes to five, Masterton Borough Councillors made what you have well termed "an unenlightened . .decision” when they voted against a free library system. They would lose in subscriptions £lBO a year, which amount would apparently be further reduced by various fines and incomes from country subscribers. At this small cost they would gain an increase in readers from 7 per cent to at least 50 per cent of the population, and a much larger and wider selection of reading matter. Today it is a race between education and wdrld catastrophe. If democracy is to function in a recreated world, it must be because it has been educated, not just to earn a living but to think. It is hardly conceivable that any councillor, as a reason for voting against such a wonderful opportunity of providing food for thought, can urge that “readers would increase, and the more readers they got the more books they would require!” Surely the public of Masterton will not be satisfied with this Rip Van Winkle attitude of mind!—Yours ,etc„ NINA A. R. BARRER. Masterton, September 24.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 6
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195OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 6
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