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PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. Balanoe-SHEBT of the Public Trust Office as at 31st March, 1923. Liabilities. Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Amounts held in Common Freohold and loasehold proFund for sundry estates mises and sites .. .. .. 271,792 15 7 and funds .. .. 14,916,227 13 4 Furniture and plantAmounts held for special Furniture and library, &c. 17,920 3 5 investment on behalf of Mechanical appliances .. 5,270 4 9 certain funds, but not yet Motor cars and cycles .. 2,743 13 8 invested .. ".. 34,138 2 0 ■ 25,934 1 10 Amount specially invested Stationery stores, &c. .. .. 6,357 9 1 on bohalf of oertain Stocks, bonds, and debenestates and funds .. 1,843,320 19 1 tures— ■ —16,793,086 14 5 . Government securities .. 838,924 15 4 Sundry creditors .. .. 107,504 7 2 Land Settlemont Finance Reserve for incomo-tax .. 21,030 9 11 Act debentures .. 50,192 0 0 Reserve for interest on Local bodies' debentures 4,175,437 2 2 enemy property moneys 52,790 8 3 —■ —• ■ 5,004,553 17 6 General Legal Expenses Mortgages, &c.— Account .. .. 3,972 10 6 Mortgages .. .. 9,155,210 1 0 Investment Fluctuation Ac- Properties acquired by count .. .. 69,165 3 6 foreclosure, &c. .. 70,655 2 6 — 146,958 12 2 — 9,225,865 3 6 Assurance and Reserve Advances (on overdraft) to Fund .. .. .. 418,637 7 10 estates and accounts .. .. .. 309,727 17 8 Interest and rent accrued due and overdue— Interest accrued up to 31st March, 1923, but not yet due, and interest overdue .. .. 260,619 7 9 Rent accrued and duo .. 459 12 10 261,079 0 7 Sundry debtors .. .. .. .. 6,728 7 2 Cash and deposits— Cash in hand and on current accounts .. 446,305 16 11 Land and income tax deposits .. .. 1,108 1 5 Cash on doposit in London .. .. 3,000 0 0 Fixed deposits .. 1,013 11 3 — 451,427 9 7 Special investments held on behalf of certain estates and funds— Government securities .. 113,665 0 2 Local bodies'debentures 335,979 0 0 Private debentures .. 2,979 7 0 Mortgages .. .. 1,385,165 8 11 Overdue interest on investments .. .. 5,532 3 0 . 1,843,320 19 1 £17,400,787 1 7 £17,466,787 1 7 J. W. Macdonald, Public Trustee. W. Barr, Chief Accountant. The Audit Office having examined the balance-sheet and accompanying accounts, and compared them with the relative books, documents, and securities, hereby certifies them to be in accordance therewith. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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