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PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE ACCOUNT.

Appropriations for the Public Trust Office Account.

Item.! 1899-1900. • Chargeable on the Public Trust Office Account. COLONIAL TEEASUEEE. 1899-1900. Total number of officers ... 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 VOTE No. 120. Salaries — Public Trustee Deputy Public Trustee (£25), and Chief Clerk (£400) ... Solicitor Assistant Chief Clerk Accountant 14 Clerks : 1 at £300, 1 at £220, 3 at £195, 1 at £185, 1 at £165, 1 at £156, 2 at £150, 2 at £135, 2 at £100 4 Shorthand-writers and Typists: 2 at £135, 1 at £100, 1 at £60 8 Cadets: 5 at £80,1 at £70, 1 at £50, 1 at £40 Eeserves Agent, New Plymouth Clerk, Beserves Agency District Agents : Christchurch Auckland Dunedin Greymouth ... ... ... Nelson Clerks and Cadets at Agencies— Christchurch, 1 at £150, 1 at £120, 1 at £40 Auckland, 1 at £145, 1 at £100 Dunedin, 1 at £100, 1 at £70 Local Audit, £240; London Agency, £75... 800 425 500 350 300 2,381 430 560 275 180 375 340 265 190 150 16 1.7 18 19 310 245 170 315 8,561 20 Other Charges— New premises, Wellington, for Public Trust Office: Purchase of site, erection of building, furnishing, &c. . . 12,000 20,561 Total—Vote No. 120 ... BLI TKUST OFFICE ACCOUNT £2i 561