PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE
BUSINESS IN APRIL Estates of a value of £450,084 were reported and accepted for administration by the Public Trustee during April, 1934. Tho total value of tho estates under administration by the Public Trustee on March 31, 1934, was £60,760,493, as compared with £59,757,449 on March 31, 1933, a net increase of £1,003,044 (after allowing for-estates closed during tho year). Grants of administration made by tho Court in favour of tho Public Trustee numbered 138 for tho month. During the month, 306 new wills appointing tho Public Trustee as executor wero deposited for safe cutody with tho Public Trustee by living testators, and in 306 cases existing wills on deposit with tho Public Trustee wero redrafted or codicils to wills were prepared at tho request of testators to' provide for changes in their plans for distributing their estates. The total number of wills now held in tho Public Trust Office is 51,572.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 7
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