PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 2

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.

PRESSURE OF ; WORK

(Per; Press AssocintJ jn.) Wellington;, this day. rvJP^W th f appeal on behalf or the S % W- °i tlle Chvistchureh oSof the Public Trust, the Military l«d •to-day announced %tVth^ appeal w «lid be dismissed, as t& ChaM iplerk had T h 6n p d6cl^ d fit "/ OT -dufy only The Board visited thi Pub lie. Trust. Qffic£, and to-day mad? a stotement thatvthe offiqeli hJ3 * . greater str^n put upon ro% the wa&i thaw a.ny other; rtepartmen?, except Befortoe.- admin^r 1 f tates oMeeeased soldiers to the Jnoin * ber f of 20(XWith freshJba^coS 300 to 400 agehews of Absent soldiers to attend to. It prepaid at Trentham; soldiers ™ils, assists the Defence Department in paying arrears of mv Vl to next*>f-kin ; ©f deceased' soldier^ .receives appointments by trustees*, agents . and executors of such as are enS^ ' takes over. thfi management of enemy properties, sees to the winding-up off i enemy_ firms, and companies, and acts as comrtnttee^of estate of alien prisoner! of war The staff a t present js 187— over .military, age, 45,; /in/&he second division there are 33, in the first • division 65, and 'under= military age 7ZI- At the front thereare 80, and 30 are being called up. The statement V&iuOfi&wTr it has done enough, and in our opiniori its ■ trained^ m«n should be exemptj op at least should not be, further'. draWn upon until the • firsfc division is" Txhausted. . , '