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Appropriations for Public Trust Office Account.

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE ACCOUNT.

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Item. 19 2-3. Chargeable on the Public Trust Office Account. £ £ COLONIAL TREASURER. 1902-3. Total number of officers ... 56 VOTE No. 115. Salaries— Public Trustee Deputy Public Trustee Solicitor Chief Clerk Assistant Chief Clerk Accountant Examiner 16 Clerks : 1 at £300, 3 at £225, 1 at £200, 1 at £190, 1 at £185, 1 at £175, 2 at £140,1 at £120, 5 at £110 8 Cadets -. 1 at £100, 1 at £80, 1 at £60, 5 at £40 5 Shorthand-writers and Typists: 1 at £130, 2 at £70, 2 at £60 Reserves Agent and District Agent New Plymouth : Clerk, District Agent New Plymouth : Cadet District Agents : Auckland Christchurch Dunedin Greymouth ... Nelson Clerks and Cadets at Agencies — Auckland, 1 at £150, 1 at £70 Christchurch, 1 at £175,1 at £100,1 at £70,1 at £65 Dunedin, 1 at £175, 1 (cadet) at £65 Local Audit, £240; London Agency, £100 800 25 500 400 350 250 200 2,675 440 390 300 200 40 350 350 275 185 165 220 410 240 340 9,105 2 3 4 Other Charges— Inspection of properties ... ... ... New premises, Wellington, for Public Trust Office: Erection of building, furnishing, &c. Compassionate allowance to widow of Mathew Townsend, late Accountant ... Compensation to M. Dinneen for land sold under " The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894 " 200 15,000 5 300 19 15,519 24,624 Total—Vote No. 115... .... PUBLIC TBUST OFFICE ACCOUNT £2 .,624