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DETAILED INDEX.

A. PAGE Accounts, Office .. . • • • 3, 14-16 Administration of estates .. . • •. 7-8 Advances to estates and beneficiaries .. .. 16 Agencies .. .. • • • • .. 7 Agents, Office .. .. ■ • • • 16, 19 Appreciation, expressions of . . . ■ .. 7 Audit . . .. •• .. •• 19 B. Beneficiaries, advances to .. .. ..16 Buildings, Office . . . . • • .. 18 Business — New . ■ • ■ ■ • • ■ ..1,4 Table showing expansion of .. 5 Under administration. . . . • • ~ 1, 4 C. Charitable and public trusts .. .. • • 8 Common Fund — Advantages of .. • • • • .. 2 Collection of interest .. . . • • ..11 Hawke's Bay Earthquake Act, 1931, effect of 12 Investments.. . ■ • • • • 11-13 Mortgagors relief legislation, effect of .. 12 National Expenditure Adjustment Act, 1932, effect of ,13 Rate of interest .. .. . ■ 2, 13-14 Complaints, absence of .. . . .. ..3,7 Concessions to mortgagors, &c. .. .. 5-6, 11 D. Debenture-holders, trustee for .. • • 4 District Managers, appointment of additional .. 16 E. Economic conditions .. .. • • ... 5 Elections to administer .. . . • ■ . . 18 Estates — Advances to.. .. •• • • ..16 Benefit of relief legislation . . •. .. 6 Closed during year .. . . ■ ■ .. 1 Intestate .. • • • • • • . . 7 Persons under disability .. • • • 7 Privately administered, supervision by Public Trustee of certain .. .. • • .. 4 Value of .. .... • • 1> 4-5 Wills and trust .. ■ ■ • • • • ' Expenditure, percentage table of.. .. . • 15

F. PAGE Finance ~ .. .. .. 14-16 G. Growth of Public Trust Office .. .. ..1,5 H. Hawke's Bay Earthquake Act, 1931 .. 12 Hawke's Bay Earthquake Belief Fund— Administration .. . . . . 3, 8-10 Amount disbursed .. .. .. 10 Completion of administration .. .. 10 Services of local relief committees . - . . 3 Services of Public Trustee . . .. 3, 10 Special fund for elderly unemployed .. .. 10 I. Inspections .. .. .. .. 18-19 Instalment, table mortgages .. .. 11,12 Interest— Collection of .. ■ • ■ ■ 11 Bate of .. .. •• 2, 13-14 Intestate estates .. . . . . • • 7 Intermediate credit, rural . . . . ..19 Investments .. .. .. .. 11-13, 16 L. Legal Division.. .. .. •• ..18 M. Macarthy Trust, Thomas George .. .. 8 Mental Patients' estates .. .. .. 4, 7 Mortgages— Estate .. • • • • • • 6 Instalment table .. .. •• 11, 12 Investments from Common Fund .. 11-13 Mortgagors Belief Act, 1931, and amendments 11, 12 Supervision of securities ~ .. 6 N. National Expenditure Adjustment Act, 1932 — Effect of reductions . . .. .. 2, 13 Special stamp duty .. ~ 2,13,15