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the sum required for endowing a new station, and it is proposed 
that, as soon as a suitable site can be got, additional subscriptions 
should be solicited, both from private individuals and from the 
learned societies in the various colonies, so that the trustees may 
be enabled to begin the construction of the new station. It is 
proposed that this should at first be on a small scale, but so 
constructed that further extension could be readily effected when 
required. It is hoped that the New South Wales Government, to 
whom application has been made, will grant a portion of one of 
the numerous reserves on the shores of the harbour as a site for 
the proposed new station. 
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