CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3] — Page 440

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Sir,

Granville Sharp Deceased.

Matilda Hospital site.

Some time ago in connection th an arrangement

for amalgamating the several lots forming the site of this

Hospital into one Lot (to be called Rural Building Lot No.16)

and granting a new Crown Lease of such Lot, our clients the

Honourable Sir C.P. Chater, C.M.G., and the Honourable Mr. E.H,

Sharp K.C., the Trustees of the late Mr. Granville Sharp's

Will, approached the Government with a view to the grant of

a longer lease than the existing terms under the present

Leases which have now (on the average) less than 40 years

unexpired.

The Trustees' desire was (and is) to have a

lease for 999 years, and in support of their application they

pointed out that since the testator's death in 1899 they had

expended under the trusts of his Will in the erection and

equipment of the Hospital not far short of $700,000 and that

for an undertaking of this size and character a term of 40

years was quite inadequate and unsuitable, particularly as

the Hospital is a wholly charitable institution and fully

endowed under the testator's Will and is in no way dependent

upon outside assistance for its maintenance. There is there-

-fore no risk of its failing for lack of support, and this

enhances the claim for its permanent establishment with proper

Becurity of tenure, which is the more important as the

question of laying out further trust funds upon extensions

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