The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1885. THE LIBRARY.
We are afraid the Institute Committee did not exercise the best judgment in decliningthe. offer of the Borough Council to advance £2O on the security of the year's rates, to assist in repairing and painting the building. The offer was certainly not a very satisfactory one, but even that small sum would have helped to carry out the more necessary work of the two. To leave a thing altogether undone because the Committee jras piqued and could not have everything its own way, is not the* most satisfactory way of disposing of It. The Committee represented to the Council that the work was one of urgent necessity, and asked for assistance. If that assistance was not forthcoming it was still the duty- of the Committee t.o do the best it could under the circumstances. The decision to do nothing to the building, and attend only to the books and internal matters might in time have a very injurious effect, and induce the Council to take some very decided step. If so, a very desirable end would, no doubt, have been gained, but we doubt whether the result would be palatable to the Com' rnittee.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2150, 20 November 1885, Page 2
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203The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1885. THE LIBRARY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2150, 20 November 1885, Page 2
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