Community Centres
‘THE series of talks from 2YA by H. Cc. D. Somerset on The Community Centre are very timely, since we are just beginning to get conscious that there are such things as community centres, and that many people think that no community should be without one. A good thing, we decide, and find ourselves rising to our feet to suggest "community centre" at any public meeting called to discuss war memorjials. But if we were asked to define a community centre we should probably -expatiate on the advantages of having the new Plunket Rooms, the library, and the old Table Tennis Club under one roof, a’ miniature civic centre’ with no corporate life of its own. In the two talks I have heard so far, Mr. Somerset has suceeeded in showing us that a community centre is something greater than its component parts, that it exists primarily for "the exercise, in company or otherwise, of the speculative faculty." _ This does not mean, however, that the Sir Tobys among us will be deprived of their cakes and ale, for we have it on Mr. Somerset’s own authority (the former quotation is Aristotle’s) that the activities of the centre must be com_plementary to, and not too far in ad- | vance of, the life of the community.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 429, 12 September 1947, Page 8
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216Community Centres New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 429, 12 September 1947, Page 8
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