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that I returned here with your Lordship Krúship is aware authority to advance flows to the £10,000 Ext? of the building, and to invest £20,000 for its maintenance. A large? sum however seemed to me, on closer investigation, adequate for all the purposes which it was to aid directly by Government money.
Vide S. 8. to Bev. M. 139 of 14 Nov?: 1871.
I felt assured, that nothing would more easily generate apathy and indifference as to the economy and management of details than a supposition that the Hospital was sufficiently endowed from other sources, to enable its Committee to dispense with further exertions on the part of its early promoters and supporters.
5. Therefore, I considered it expedient to set apart for annual support of the Hospital only so much money as, if liberally supplemented by Native donations and subscriptions, might enable the objects of that Institution to be carried out. In this way a perpetual canvass and unflagging interest, it is hoped, may be kept up.
6. The Committee had already obtained an advance of $15,000, and between $3,000 and $4,000 more had been expended by the Government in sundry matters connected with the building and preparing the ground, independent of the value of the site, which was a gift from the Queen