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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Interesting that the Somerset bellhanger
John Sully of Stogumber was involved in this bell for Malagasy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Browsing the <EM>Bell News</EM>, I found
this reference to Sully's involvement in a bell for a Port Hedland in Western
Australia at about the same time:</FONT></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB>An appeal for N.W. Australia. / The Rev. Joseph Stubbs, the Vicarage,
Huish Episcopi, Somerset, in making an appeal for funds to obtain a Church Bell,
says:- “My son, the Rev. Gerald Salkeld Stubbs, is incumbent of the Parish of
Port Hedland in the Diocese of North-West Australia. He informs me that the only
instrument by which worshippers can be summoned to the Church, and the
commencement of the Services announced, is a portion of an old iron hoop,
formerly the rim of a cart wheel, which is hit by a piece of iron rod. It has
been suggested to me to make an appeal to the Bell-ringers of the Diocese of
Bath and Wells, and to any others who might be disposed to give, for the
wherewithal to send out to Port Hedland a suitable small bell. Mr. John Sully of
Stogumber, estimates the cost of a good bell with fittings, of the weight of
42lbs., at £12. To pay the cost of a little inscription and the transit, with a
possible tariff, perhaps £20 will be required. Will you kindly contribute? / A
new Church is needed in a distant part of the huge Parish of Port Hedland, and
should more than £20 be contributed the overplus will be devoted to the Building
Fund of that new Church." (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Bell News</I>
Volume 32, issue 1632, 12 July 1913, page 226)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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