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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

Library of the Supreme Court, Dunedin. — Joseph Wood, Librarian

Library of the Supreme Court, Dunedin.

Joseph Wood, Librarian.

Mr. Barr kindly took me over this library, which is located in an upper room in the Supreme Court buildings, and is open on all court days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is a long, narrow room, and was formerly used as the Provincial Council Library; but, being surrounded by noisy thoroughfares, it did not strike me as well adapted for study.

There are about 5,000 volumes of reports, texts, treatises, and commentaries, and there is a manuscript catalogue kept up to date. A very neat little printed catalogue was issued in 1874 (cloth 16mo. pp. 57), and I was told that there had been a more recent edition, or that one was shortly to be issued, which I hope is the case. The rules as to page 37 admission, management, &c., of this library are practically the same as at the law libraries of Auckland, Wellington, and Christ Church, of which I have already spoken.