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that the heavy expenditure involved in building school should not be

a

incurred at once.

I have therefore sanctioned the

hire of a building for the

so that the project

purpose,

may

be abandoned without

serious loss if it should.

prove a failure.

3.

mention

that Mr. E.R. Belilios,

I may

wealthy

a

local merchant,

has generously offered to

build

build a girls' school at a

-

$25.000 cost of Twenty-five thousand:

dollars, to be borne entirely by himself, on condition

that the school be named

after

4.

him .

However the value

of a suitable site, and the expense in the upkeep of the establishment, if it - proved

}

be

any

a success, would

sum

on

of

the

very far in excess

expended building, and I soarsely

mere

think