CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9] — Page 293

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Hi fottano hur. :205

This huilding has

a

carianaly varied history.

the lak presented to the for! h kit Smännch

gok was

Raphard Belilios,

a

ha

wealthy merchand

chirgh notable for his penchant for

decorating Lord Beaconsfield's statue, for the

purpose of

Completed

Reformation. It was

Just in 1898 & it wa

purposed to

open it at the beginning of 1901. Haughing want to considerable expense in getting teachers from England to instruct the inemato in industrias. Then they for memats &

sufficiently shewn that no need for a Reformator

waited

When it

their way

поня. Саме

the fort decided that it' aught

frid same

Ch

for the wilding.

they proposed therefore that it shared his couverted into a school for European children. – an unfatuate proposal seeing that parthy Armenia

the donor

+ parthy Hebrew, hir Belitirs gmarandly said that he placed the building entirely at the disprand y the fat though he and rather it wanned for mixed school of a

character.

procedings throughmt

Technical

fork, whose

whe on the

principle of acting first + thinking 286

afterwards, duvided not to use

a School at all. For

was wall

Since Jar 1908

Chamay

How it smelis

Sonne

it for

time it

over. How prisch:

have strong

the standing empty.

Har propad to use it

Refuge

will realt

salt in it's king

apply it

buffing to a

akin

orignally

purpose more

to that for which It

given, than an

of the former sugestions.

It is perhaps unfortunate that

it são pass

Anglican body

the control of an

the donor was

different failte, but his son

approves

Ti

Win

کست مالی

41550/02, it is char

4

his letter

that

but Belitios world have agreed:

he

the

placed the building unconditimally at the absolute disposal j s.gs.

? Approve

ALC

13/9

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