. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. )rocure some jiortion of the fundsrequired to erect a building on the latter, withthe condition that the building should containrooms for the Colonial Museum for which T4 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF. c. K. IIOLDKN. Coinniitteeman, 1839-40, iS4)-7 iS;6, iS: i<S63-3. collections on a small scale have been making for a few years past. This arrangement was subsequently ajiproved by the Secretary of has been carried into effect so far as to give possession to the Society of the two suburb allot-ments, but I would beg leave to sub
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. )rocure some jiortion of the fundsrequired to erect a building on the latter, withthe condition that the building should containrooms for the Colonial Museum for which T4 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF. c. K. IIOLDKN. Coinniitteeman, 1839-40, iS4)-7 iS;6, iS: i<S63-3. collections on a small scale have been making for a few years past. This arrangement was subsequently ajiproved by the Secretary of has been carried into effect so far as to give possession to the Society of the two suburb allot-ments, but I would beg leave to submit a different arrangement for the building. I ap}n-ehend some difficulty in procuring suital)le rooms for the ]\Iuseum in the rooms which the funds of the Society will enable them to erect, and it would be a novel and perhaps an imprudent measure to place the public property in a house over which the Government w^ould have no other control than as a kind of a lessee of a part of it. I consider. therefore, it would be more advisal)le to build a house for a Library and Museum, and. cancelling the promise of a building allotment to the Society, to allow them to place their books m the Library, and ha\e the use and occupation of the rooms composing it
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