PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE
QUESTION OF PROFITS
DEFINED POSITION WANTED
(By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 21. At the close of his speech to-nigtrt on the Budget Mr W. D. Lysnar .(Gisborne) said that something, should be done to define the position of the Public Trust Office. The country was behind it and guaranteed it, but got nothing oht of it. There was a liability on the country, and it was time that tlio Government got somethin,, out of it. They should define to whom the land and the buildings belonged. At present the whole thin*, was swinging in the air. The country should get the profits or charge tho trust a commission for backing it. If something was not done, it would encourage extravagance r«n the department. There was a complaint from one end of New Zealand to the other about it Huge bmkhngs were being put all over. the count v. Whore was the profit , ft® said that it should go mto the ex chequer of the country.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 226, 22 August 1928, Page 6
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169PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 226, 22 August 1928, Page 6
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