. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. m. I am much gratified that I am the first large contributor to add to . splendid collection, and I hope that the donation will be an incentive toothers to do likewise by presenting their historical records and collections to us forcustody here, where they will be treasured and carefully preserved. As the volumesI have given contain matter entirely of public interest, I think they have foundtheir proper hoine. and 1 am very pleased that they are permanentlv depositedhere. Now I do not think 1 have tlone anything >o praisewo
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. m. I am much gratified that I am the first large contributor to add to . splendid collection, and I hope that the donation will be an incentive toothers to do likewise by presenting their historical records and collections to us forcustody here, where they will be treasured and carefully preserved. As the volumesI have given contain matter entirely of public interest, I think they have foundtheir proper hoine. and 1 am very pleased that they are permanentlv depositedhere. Now I do not think 1 have tlone anything >o praiseworthy, for by reasonof the authorship of the books I could not, with propriety and decency, have soldthem. In any event. 1 could not legally have done so to my own Trust, and if Ihad disposed of them with a view to making money out of them they would most]irobably, in fact, almost to a certainty, have been resold by the purchaser to thisLibrary at price; thus I should have indirectly done, or helped to do,what I could not have legally THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 93 The absence of the Hon. the Premier and some of his colleagues is to beregretted; they are in the country on public business, and could not, much as theywished, return in time to be here, but the Trustees welcome the Acting-Premier(the Hon. C. A. Lee) and thank him for what he has done as Minister for Works,for the completion of the National Library, and for what we have heard himpromise to-day, and I am sure it must be gratifying to you to see the Minister ofPublic Instruction (the Hon. J. A. Hogue), who has Ministerial control of the PublicLibrary, with us, for he has been a good friend in lending a sympathetic ear toMr. Mitchells views and influencing the then Government to comply with hisconditions and stipulations relating to this magnificent gift, with the result that theState is now the possessor of the whole of his valuable library, which, in additionto other literature, contains
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