LIBRARY MATTERS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 80, 4 December 1900, Page 3

LIBRARY MATTERS.

TO THfl BWTOB. ' •Bra.— -A-s a Library subscriber for neatly .#eaas, allow me to express the pleasure it gave me to be present at' the meeting the other night. If j: had not been there, I would not. have believed the paltry personal jealousies that are allowed to display, themselves against aoy man who may try to afford improved facilities for the convenience of resideata>in-the. district. A letter in your previous issue was well timed, and at last woke up from, their apathy the real Library, supporters. It is quite time the aelf-! opinionated .pavty, whose object seems' to be to ruin anything not proposed by, by themselves was overturned. Keep, ing np communications among themselves all day, running across to each othei's shops and devoting most of their time to injure other people, they have been able to carry some weight. But that day is newly done. The arrogance of certain men, the tether night, was insufferable. It was plainly hinted to county subscribers, that they Jbad no business to attend library meetings dealing with the piesent proposal. What next ? The irritation eau fled these remarks, if repeated 1 , wiling .j Q the withdrawal of the country m embera and the formation of a club ent irel {or themselves. The soooer the Borough opposition 'faction, «?«* * he ir paltry spirit and .amaU-mindedne^ v -£ ariuffed out the better for the orough people «s^well as th<> 8 ? wno J ive In the, county. I hope the «™ c °unty subscribers will take no »w tooe of the hints thrown <©ut, b«t in w««w attena the meetings regularly. — A am »«tc., COOKTV SUBSCRIBBS.

TO THB BOTTOR. Sib, — The Library subscribers' • meetings have become very important affairs lately, for some reason or other. At one time, the committee tell us, they had to re-elect themselves to that offioe, for three year* running, mowing to no one else coming to the annual meetings. Why thii sudden 'interest in library affairs? I ratherfancy, the Town Hall scheme la responsible, or rather the private feeling of different subscribers towards the promoter pf the scheme. It w strange how large'a part private feelings play in public affairs here. These footings have been known, again and again, to blind men to thejhr public fluty, and to lead them to express opinions whioh in their inmost' minds they acknowledge to be wrong. I don't think for a moment that there were six men at the subscribers' meeting on Friday night Who really thought the proposed scheme tp be against the best interests of the Library, but to gratify private ieblinga agaiqst one or other of those favouring the Idea, a -good number voted against U, That this courae of action Is patty «nd small minded in. •tba&tcemfrgow without saying, but that ifl nothing new to some of our public men.— 3 am, tto., ;v ' Obi> Subsoribib,