MECHANICS' INSTITUTES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 615, 29 April 1876, Page 2

MECHA NICS' INSTITUTES.

'Sir,— Hut it never struck ttty of out* leading tatft that §urh a thing >■ a Mechanics' Institute dofti not exist in the whole of the Waikato. Tt\a.t w* hare no library or reading toom» in out settlements? I think that in more than ons of the princlpil townthips 'the establishment of institutions of th'm kind might ba itarted with success. The matter aat least worthy of a trial-. There are numbers of young men and other*, who, without the attractions of a home Circle, are driven, especially duriug the long winter crenings, to souroes of relaxation and amusamftat wbicli are often, to fsiy the least of theru, of. qutifionnble adranttgo. Let iome one of infltrenoe in the sews] township* call % piblio m»ot« ing to consider the question, and it woald than be teen if there is sufficient enthusiasm on the subject to warrant further «tcp» bt<ing taken. Suoh a itep if it led to nothing Would cost nothing, and no harm would be dona ; bat, if os the contrary, it wai found that tha public w»« re»Hy inttrested 'in the matter, a comrtiietes could be formed, and steps be taken for prittiftg tbD^wishet of ihe people into efieoi. —?otm, <to» raoomiss. NgaruaWahii, April 26. [Our correspondent is incorrect in one particular. There h, we beliere, a Tery excellefti library belonging to the A C Fares at Kikikiha. — E* W.T.]