PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.

Grey River Argus, 17 January 1928, Page 6

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.

'TE|ANFACTIONS /DURING) NOVEMBER. file lollpwyug particulars of" the loan LransacitjiOii/S of Vhc I’ubiic Trust Officio and newt , business reported during the month ended 30 th. November, 1927, have been supplied by the Right Hon. the Prime Minister:— The amount paid out in settlement •of new loans was £183,751, making a total of £1,805,340 since the beginning of the present financial year on Ist. April last. Further new loans to the amount of £75,727 were granted, making the total of new loans awaiting settle-’ ment £697,754, while offers of loans less than the full advances applied for amount to £193,756 —a grand total of £891,510. . ( Applications for additional new loans amounting to £428,344 are receiving attention. The new business was again very satisfactory, estates of a value of £539,566 having been accepted for administration, bringing the total of new business for the eight months from Ist April last to £4,141,008, exceeding the figures for the same period in the previous year by nearly half a million pounds. The estates under administration on 31st. March. 1927, were of a value of £41,043,523. New'wills deposited for safe custody by testators appointing the Public Trustee their executor numbered 437, and the total now held is 56,474.