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Public Trust Office Profit and Loss Account. Revenue and Expenditure for the Fifteen Months ended 31st March, 1895.

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Dβ. To Balance on 1st January, 1894 Commission and charges Transfer from Interest Account Accrued and overdue interest Rents from securities taken over Valuation-fees Sundries £ s. a. £ s. a. 1,350 3 1 5,026 11 4 5,517 0 2 4,646 6 5 309 8 8 216 7 0 257 2 6 By Expenses of Management — Salaries, — Head Office Branch offices and agencies Agents' commission Clerical assistance Cost of audit . : Services of Agent-General's Office General Post Office, services General Post Office, postages Legal expenses ' Advertising Coal, gas, office-cleaning, nightwatchman Stationery, printing, and office requisites Removing and furnishing new offices Valuation-fees Travelling-expenses Rent, Head Office Rent, agencies Sundries .. Cβ. £ s. d. £ s. d. 6,038 16 7 1,260 18 10 1,231 19 5 34 10 0 320 0 0 112 10 0 300 0 0 225 0 0 189 17 7 176 16 2 119 15 7 990 8 0 200 6 4 208 19 0 122 2 1 567 1 8 181 5 0 262 3 9 13,972 16 1 Land-tax Amoitnt of deficiency in realisation of mortgage securities appropriated 12,542 10 0 684 5 8 340 4 9 Unauthorised — Government Life Insurance Department: Refund portion of E. McCarthy's compensation for loss of office 57 8 i Unauthorised — Costs incurred in conserving the estate of R. Aitken, deceased .. Loss in administering the estate of F. E. Noble, deceased Loss in administering the estate of Edward Gillett, deceased E. McCarthy : Compensation for loss of office Cost of drafting " The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894," " The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894," and " The Lunatics Act Amendment Bill, 1894 " Legal costs in trying to recover property in the estate of Hugh Campbell, deceased .. 1,024 10 5 5 13 6 0 1 11 2 10 0 104 0 0 250 0 0 102 2 5 57 8 4 470 7 10 Native Reserves Branch — To Commission and charges Cost of advertising refunded 906 0 7 4 4 0 Native Reserves Branch — By Salaries Commission Expenses, Native Board members Stamping and registering leases Rent Sundries 397 18 10 116 9 3 33 14 0 72 5 0 39 0 0 6 14 9 ■ 910 4 7 666 1 10 West Coast Settlement Reserves Branch — To Commission Fees ... Cost of advertising refunded Sundries .. 1,264 17 2 718 2 3 359 7 6 4 3 6 West Coast Settlement Reserves Branch — By Salaries Clerical assistance Reserves agent's travelling-expenses Public Trustee's travelling-expenses Valuer's travelling-expenses Legal expenses .. .. .. Advertising Expenses of presiding officer at rent meetings, Native agents, and their travelling-expenses Stamping and registering leases Sundries 874 1 8 56 1 8 161 16 9 11 16 9 95 13 0 501 1 9 300 14 6 502 0 2 57 10 0 82 8 10 9 34fi in s Balance 2,643 5 1 . 3,290 7 4 A , X\J it £20,637 2 6 £20,637 2 6