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rity of unencumbered Real Estate owned by them, or 

 of unencumbered leaseholds of not less than twenty- 

 five years, or on Mortgage securities on Real Estate 

 or leaseholds as above stated, held by them, or on 

 the security of their unadvanced Shares or of their 

 Debenture Bonds, or to aid them in acquiring Real 

 Estate or leaseholds as above stated, making improve- 

 ments thereon, or removing incumbrances therefrom ; 

 and to accumulate a fund to be returned to its mem- 

 bers as hereinafter provided." 



This Association has done an immense amount of 

 good and Trinidad has every reason to be proud of 

 it. The names of the Managing Committee and 

 Secretary consisting as it does of such well-known 

 citizens as : — Messrs. J. A. Rapsey, Hugo Hoffmann, 

 Adam Smith, A. 0. Rudin, H. K. Stone, H. W. Brath- 

 waite, John William McCarthy and C. E. Dray- 

 ton, with A. F. Mathison as Secretary and Treasurer, 

 must serve as a guarantee of its bona fides, and the 

 number of years which it has continued to be in 

 flourishing existence is, or ought to be, ample proof 

 that it is an association not only to be relied on but 

 also encouraged. In my opinion it is worthy of being 

 used as an illustration of the difference between the 

 Trinidad of Then and the Trinidad of Now. 



I, therefore, am pleased to be able to accord it a 

 deserving meed of praise in the pages of this book 

 and I hope be the means of bringing it into more pro- 

 minent notice. 



