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the Chaplain. In 1901 I had to go down to Kennedy Town two and sometimes three times a week, I should have had to go oftener had not the bishop and the Chaplain of the Missions to seamen kindly undertaken to visit there on certain days of the week. Again a new Civil Hospital will shortly be opened on Barker

Hoad, Feak, and the patients there will have to be regularly

visited. With regard to burials I have been informed that the

Government pays a certain sum annually in Burial fees. To whom

is that money paid ? Certainly not to me, I never yet received a

fee for a funeral, and certainly not to the Chaplain of the

Missions to seamen. Yet in 1901 the Cathedral Chaplain or some-

one in his stead officiated at 89 funerals while the Seamen's

Chaplain officiated at 24 funerals, in 1802 these figures were

25 and 32; of course I cannot now tell how many of these

funerals were those of ren from the Gaol and Hospital but the

fact remains that in these two years 120 funerals were conduct-

ed without a single fee being paid. I hope I have succeeded in

giving you the information you asked for. i feel rost strongly

that the Government gives a most inadequate remuneration for the

work done for it in connection with the Gaol and hospital.

Yours etc.,

(Sd.) E. E. Johnson.