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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 8

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PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE STATEMENT FOR AUGUST Estates of a value of £648,584 were reported and accepted for administration by the Public Trustee during August, 1939. The total value of the estates and funds under administration by the Public Trustee on March 31, 1939, was £61,715,713, and the new business for the five months ended August 31 was £2,468,807. Grants -of administration made by the coUrt in favour of the Public Trustee numbered 221 Tor the month. During the month 542 new wills appointing the Public Trustee executor were prepared on behalf of testa‘ors and lodged for safe custody, and 394 existing wills were revised to nrovide for changes desired by testators. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE nilee. T«l. Copyright— United Press Assn ' SYDNEY, Sent. 16. Sales on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day included the following: Bank of New South Wales. £27 3s; Tooth’s Breweries. £2 9s 6d; Huddart-Parkcr. £2 17s 9d; Anthony Hordern. 13s 5dA.C.1., £1 13s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 7s Gd; Cash Orders, 15s, I

Commonwealth Bends.—3j per cent, 1948, £9B 15s: 33 per cent, 1949. £96; 3? per cent, 1949, £99; 1954, £97 ss; 4 per cent, 1941, £IOO Ms 3d; 1944, £IOO 15s; 19 50, £99 13s 9d; 1953, £9.9 1 15 s; 1955. £99 18s 9d; 1957. £100; 1959, £IOO. 300GN/ PARORANGI BULL PURCHASE BY ACTON STUD The top-priced bull at the sale of Parorangi Herefords last week was secured by Mr. H. W. Barker, of the Acton Hereford Stud, Gisborne, and not by Murphy Bros., as previously announced. This bull, Parorangi 52nd, was sired by Vern Martinez (imp.), and was sold for SOOgns to Mr. Barker.