CASH BALANCE
IN THE PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. The figures of the Public Trust Office show that on the 31st March, 1912, there was a grand total of cash balance in the various estate^ of £6,128,201 0« Id, the corresponding figures for 1911 being £4,327,349 5s 4d. The Office investments are: Government securities, £189,208; municipal corporation debentures, £138,784 ; county council debentures, £81,000; hnrbour board debentures, £10,400'; town board debentures, £22,600; land settlement association debentures, £216,663 17s 3d; order supply board debentures, £13,000^ money on freehold inottg&geM, £4419,261 15s Id ; advance* on overdrafts to estates, £68,420 15b 2d. The office now holds over 8000 wills of living people.
Arbor Day, which New Zealand copied from America, was established in the State* by a splendid citiaen of Nebraska, J. Sterling Mortonj Secretary of Agriculture under President Cleveland. A etafcue, inscribed " Author of Arbor Day," stands in Morton P*zk, which this great friend of tie people gave to Nebraska City. Hia home, adjoining the park, i» now known as Arbor Lodge. There a sandial in a-oarner of a rose garden cony pele the passerby to pause and read these word« on the pedestal : — " Time flies, and flowers fide.; new d*y«, new
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 10, 11 July 1912, Page 7
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197CASH BALANCE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 10, 11 July 1912, Page 7
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