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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 19
Progress Report of the Building Committee
Progress Report of the Building Committee.
In pursuance of the resolutions adopted at the general meeting of the congregation held on the 22nd of September, the Trustees of the several Church properties, together with those members of the Congregational Committee not trustees, resolved themselves into a Building Committee, to select a design for the new Church, and to take such steps as they might think necessary for carrying out the wishes of the general meeting.
| 1. | "That the design furnished by Mr. Rowe for the New Unitarian Church, to be erected in Liverpool Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, be adopted, subject to such alterations as the Committee, consisting of the Trustees of the Clarence Street and Liverpool Street Unitarian Church properties, the Trustees of the Unitarian Church, Macquarie Street, the Minister of the said Church, and the Congregational Committee of the said Church for the time being, may approve; and that tenders be called for, and the erection of the New Church proceeded with, as soon as the Building Committee have £1500 at their disposal." |
| 2. | "That a Bazaar, on as large and remunerative a scale as possible, be got up in aid of the Building Fund, and that the ladies of the Congregation be invited to give their assistance." |
Two allotments of the Clarence Street land yet remain unsold,* but the Committee believe that they will shortly be disposed of, and that with the amount then in hand, together with subscriptions already received and promised, the required sum of £1500 will soon be realised. Tenders will then be galled for, and the Committee feel sanguine in the anticipation that a very short time will see the commencement of a work which will be gratifying to all; and which, besides being an ornament to the city, will largely promote the worship of the One True God and the spread of free religious inquiry.
The cash now in hand amounts to £793 10s., which, with the proceeds of the two unsold allotments, subscriptions received and promised, will, the Committee believe, nearly realise the amount required, and enable them to lay the foundation stone of the Church; and they now earnestly appeal to their friends to use their exertions to effect this object.
Arthur M. àBeckett,
Chairman.