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Consolidated Fund Account. Ce. • £ s. d. By Amounts unclaimed for six years in intestates' estates ... ... 762 4 4 Amounts received for maintenance of patients in lunatic asylums to the 31st March, 1883, after which date such receipts were not (with two small exceptions) paid into the Public Trust Office ... ... 1,031 15 8 £1,794 0 0 De. To Amounts paid over to Consolidated Fund ... ... ... ... £1,794 0 0 *■ E. C. Hamebton, Public Trustee. Public Trust Office, J. C. Moginie, Wellington, 6th February, 1884. Accountant. Examined and found correct. James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

Statement of Beceifts and Expenditure of the Public Teust Office Expenses Account, for the Year ended 31st December, 1883. Beceipts. Public Trust Office,— £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. By Balance on Ist January, 1883 . ... ... 7,301 4 11 Commission and chargesreceivedfrom estates 2,343 10 1 Fees on deposit of wills ... ... 2 10 0 Commission on stamps purchased ... 440 Fees on registration of life policies ... 0 10 0 Exchange on cheques ... ... ... 010 2,350 15 0 *Balance of Interest Account transferred ... ... 994 5 11 Befund of travelling expenses ... ... ... 7340 Behind of legal charges paid ... ... ... 16 010 — 3,434 5 10 Native Eeserves Branch, — By Commission and charges received ... ... 523 9 2 Befund of part of Commissioner's salary ... ... 16 3 4 *— 540 2 6 t West Coast Settlement Eeserves Branch,- — By Commission and charges received ... ... 361 16 10 Eefund of advertising paid ... ~. ... 348 710 710 4 8 Total ... £11,985 17 11 ExPENDITUEE. Public Trust Office, — To Salaries of Officers, — Public Trustee ... ... ... 800 0 0 Chief Clerk ... ... ... 412 10 0 Accountant ... ... ... 320 0 0 Assistant Accountant ... ... 218 15 0 Ledger-keeper ... ... ... 150 0 0 Clerk ... ... ... ... 131 5 0 Clerk ... ... ... ... 87 10 0 Clerk ... ... ... ... 77 10 0 Clerk ... ... ... ... 20 8 4 Cadet ... ... ... ... 30 0 0 2,247 18 4 Commissions paid to agents ... ... ... 429 1 6 Stationery ... ... ... 64 12 0 Postages, telegrams, and stamps ... ... 149 2 2 Exchange on remittances ... ... ... 46 7 0 Advertising ... ... ... ... ... 243 14 4 Carried forward ... ... £3,180 15 4 * Owing to an exchange of securities, the balance of Interest Account transferable to Expenses Account lias been reauced by the sum of £1,161 16s. Bd., as under the old securities the interest was payable on the 31st December, and under the new on the Ist January£lBB4. The profits of the year 1883 are therefore apparently less by the above sum than the amount earned, and the profits of the year 1884 will be correspondingly increased. t Owing to the large expense attending the initiatory management of the West Coast Settlement Reserves, the expenditure has exceeded the receipts during the year 1883 by £614 7s. 3d., and during the previous period by £222135, 4d., making a deficit up to the present time of £837 os. 7d., which has been met out of the profits of the office.