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arshall to use the premises for a branch of her St Clare’s school. Marshall built the first of the two modern buildings in the compound. When the municipality acquired the land in front of the church for a road widening scheme the church decided to pull down the old church and build afresh. They desired to build so much further back that they asked permission of the property committee to pull down and build on the side of the old school buildings and latrines. This permission was granted on condition that “equivalent accommodation” was provided for the school. The church proposed to build a new block of school buildings with greater accommodation then those it proposed to demolish, but were not prepared to meet in addition the cost of adequate water-borne sanitation in place of the old. Instead, it proposed to erect dry earth latrines, Rather than accept this, miss marshall proposed that she should meet the extra cost of installing water-borne sanitation. An essential part of the agreement by which miss marshall occupied the premises was that the mission should take over her school, if it desired to do so, on her death. Miss. Marshall died in 1941 and the school was formally taken over by synod in 1942.