BROUGHT TO LIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 6

BROUGHT TO LIGHT

MUCH-DISCUSSED TROPHY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

Buried away in his lumber room, a city jeweller discovered yesterday a shield which had been the subject of j heated argument among the centres of I the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. The trophy was the Queensland Jubilee Memorial Shield and it had been in the shop for three years. Canterbury had been blamed for having the shield, but had insisted that it had gone to Otago. Otago denied possession. Meanwhile Auckland, the last winner of the trophy, demanded possession. It appears that the shield was taken to the shop for engraving I and was not reclaimed;

PUJ3LIC TRUST OFFICE

STATEMENT FOR OCTOBER

Estates of a value of £354,085 were reported and accepted for administration by the Public Trustee during the month of October, 1935. The total value of the estates under administration by the Public Trustee on March 31, 1935, was £60,706,016, and the new business for the seven months ended October 31, 1935, was £3,746,585.

Grants of administration made by the Court in favour of the Public Trustee numbered 183 for the month.

During the month 331 new wills appointing the Public Trustee executor were deposited for safe custody by living testators and 302 existing wills were revised to provide for changesdesired by testators. The total number of wills now held in the Public Trust Office is 84.912.

Ferdinand Muller, a sentry in the garrison at Toul, 12 miles from Nancy, vanished from his sentry box and has not been seen since.