CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932 — Page 68

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its land by public auction for the sum of $120,000; against this it received a Building Grant of $50,000 under the Code

though it was actually eligible for a grant of about two

lakhs.

7.

The School has undoubtedly been unlucky in the defaulting of the two purchasers of its former site, and in

the occupation by the Military for a period of eleven months of its new premises only a year after the School had

moved into them. Nevertheless I do not consider that it

would be in the interests of those wider aims and ideals,

to which petitioners so eloquently refer, to accord to a single institution, the financial management of which has

not been wise, such exceptional treatment as is now asked

for.

Particularly is this so at a time when grants and subsidies to other schools, the conduct of which has given

no cause for complaint, have either been reduced or kept

down to a figure admittedly inadequate. I therefore

recommend that the request of the petitioners be not

acceded to.

us

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

The

the

Governor, &c.

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