After all, "the cathedral is used for all sorts of things, whether a Dave Dobbyn concert or a school prizegiving, carol service or to honour Sir Edmund Hillary".
If the dean sounds like she might be trying it on, wait until you hear Orakei ward councillor Cameron Brewer.
He thinks a few million is "relatively small", given that community facilities in Parnell, Remuera and Newmarket are "wanting".
He's right. Manukau has a fully functioning, life-size amusement park with a roller coaster. Eastern suburbs residents must make do with the "inflatable aqua run" at Parnell Baths.
Taking Holy Trinity as eastern suburbs' ground zero, residents have to schlep 1.8km to Vector arena to see sexagenarian rock stars, and 1.2km for their senior hipsters' indie film fix at the Rialto. Getting to the CBD for galleries, theatre and concerts is probably a day trip.
Of course, what the Church of England does with its funds is its business. If it thinks throwing $3 million at an instrument most people loathe is the best way of giving "praise to the Lord, the Almighty", as the hymn has it, then that is its right.
But what it does with our money is our business.
I live in an area where long-term residents are having to sell their homes because they can't afford the rates - rates which could be going, if Kelly-Moore and Brewer have their way, to pep up the pipes of Holy Trinity's organ.
Several people who are worried they may be among the 88 New Zealanders spied upon illegally by the Government Communications Security Bureau have expressed umbrage that the bureau "can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested".
But really - what did they expect?
Spies may come in from the cold, love me or shag me, but they won't tell me if my name is on a list.
For the GCSB to undertake this search would be to make a rod for their own backs.
Firstly, it would eat into the time available for their day job monitoring Kim Dotcom. Worse would be the consequences in cases where it turned out the applicants had not been spied upon.
Every former Progressive Youth Movement or Socialist Unity Party member out there would demand to know why they were deemed insufficiently subversive to invite surveillance.
The point of spying is that people don't know you're doing it - something at which our spies, and visitors from France and Israel, have historically proved themselves to be inept.
To cough up names now would reinforce this reputation for incompetence.
Let's support them in finally trying to do their job properly.
