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The number of estates administered each year was as follows:—

Total, 24,773. From the foregoing figures it will be seen that the average time that an estate will remain in the office is 4-366 years, as shown below : — Number of estates under administration each year for the whole sixteen years aggregate to 24,773, and this number divided by 5,674 (the total number of estates administered) gives 4-366 years ; each estate thus runs into five years' accounts. The average time taken for each estate was shown to be 30 minutes 59 seconds, and, as each estate runs into five years, it follows that 6 minutes 11* seconds was the average time taken in bringing out each annual pair of totals required. R. C. Hamerton, Public Trust Office, Public Trustee. Wellington, 3rd July, 1890. [Approximate, Cost of Paper.— Preparation, £359105. Bd.; printing (1,300 copies), £4 2s.

By Authority : George Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9o.

Year. N.i. Year. No. 1873 .. 1874 .. 1875 .. 1876 .. 1877 .. 1878 .. 1879 .. 1880 .. 315 542 733 928 1,088 1,196 1,337 1,400 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1,031 2,004 2,124 2,305 2,382 2,307 2,227 2,199