CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2374, 16 August 1886, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Now that the reading-room is again open to the. public, I would like through your valuable paper to Buggest that the lamps bo lighted sooner in the evening. As I with many others wero in the room on Tuesday last up to and after 5 p.m, and as you will be aware, it was a very dull evening, we eould not see to read any paper, evon close to the windows, let alone on the stands, and as I have seeii the same thing in the old reading-room--very often, for the benefit of readers, it would confer a great boon on thorn if the lamps were lighted before it gets quite so dark. I would also suggest that there should be some cards on boards with largo letters on them, " No smoking or talking allowed. I have seen smoking often in the old reading-room, and people also having a quiet talk in a low rumbling to*e, which is very annoying to people reading, and 1 have also to complain of a lot of boys who come in a drove and keep on talking and laughing and tossing the illustrated papers about. Without troubling you fxrther I think if the Committee wore to give their attention to these few remarks, it would make the reading-room more comfortable for the majority of the readers. Yours, etc., ; T, JOHNSON.