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aware that the Cathedral here was, to the extent of two-thirds of its __ cost, created at Government expense, and all considerable sums necessary for Keeping up or enlarging the fabric have been shared in the same proportion. The Trustees of course recognise the fact that it has been decided to terminate this state of things, but still, the time fixed for such termination not having yet arrived they do not think the Government would wish to anticipate it by leaving the trustees unaided

the most serious difficulty.

in

face of

have ever had to encounter. Never before, except when the roof of

they

the

the Church was condemned as

condemned as unsafe.

from dry rot and white ants, have the Trustees found themselves called to provide for as large

an

of the

upon to provide for expenditure. In the case roof the decretary of State at once allowed the repairs to be made at the expense of the Colony. As regards the present case the trustees perhaps can seareely hope for an application of the old two-thirds rule, an organ not bring altogether a necessity, though it is very unusual to see 2 large a Church without one, still they do venture to hope for some assistance before

before their connection with the Government is

but

finally