DOMINION LIBRARIES
ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING NATIONAL SERVICE URGED. ATTENTION TO ARMY EDUCATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Library Association was attended by 43 delegates. Miss E. Melville, chairman of the Library Committee, Auckland City Council, was elected president. She had previously been president on two occasions. She has been on the Library Committee of the Auckland Council for 30 years and has been chairman with a short break since 1917. Other officers are: Patron, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser; immediate past president, Mr Norrie, Wellington; vicepresidents, Messrs J. Barr (Auckland), W. J. Gaudin, G. H. Scholefield, C. R. H. Taylor (Wellington), J. J. Scott (Wanganui); council, Misses A. M. Blackett (Wanganui), A. K. Elliott (Timaru), M. S. Fleming (Wellington), Messrs D. M. Neal (Dunedin), C. W. Collins (Christchurch), W. J. Harris (Dunedin), A. G. W. Dunningham, C. S. Perry (Wellington); hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr G. T. Alley (Wellington); hon. auditor, Dr. G. H. Scholefield; hon. counsel and solicitor, Mr J. O’Shea (Wellington); hon. auditor, Mr B. O. Peterson (Wellington). Mr Norrie referred to the function of the State to provide a national library as a central pivot of the library system to the chaotic condition of Government ■departmental libraries and lack of coordination and contact. Possibly the establishment of a national library might do something to clear up the situation which reflected credit neither upon the departments nor the library service.
A resolution was passed affirming determination to make army education the main activity for the duration of the war, the impression being gained that from it would eventuate an effective adult education system for the future.
During 1942 the central bureau for library book' imports recommended for special licence orders to a value of £9,387, as compared with £10,128 for 1941. Twenty-eight New Zealand libraries are participating in these imports. So far licences for fiction have been refused.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1943, Page 4
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318DOMINION LIBRARIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1943, Page 4
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