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7. That the amount of money held as executor of estates under administration was at 30th September, 1898, £102 4s. 1d.

8. That the sum remaining in the company’s hands at 30th September, 1898, to the credit of estates for which the company is trustee, which sum is represented by either cash or securities, or both, was £166,891 8s. 1d.

9. That the company’s liabilities and assets were as follows:—

Liabilities.
£ s. d.
Capital .. .. .. .. 10,000 0 0
Balances due to various constituents. .. 4,238 0 4
Reserve fund .. .. .. 3,000 0 0
Other liabilities .. .. .. 21 5 0

Assets.
Cash in banks, and mortgages, and debentures 16,760 8 10
Balances due by various constituents .. 1,518 2 5
Other assets .. .. .. 297 8 9

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

W. LAURENCE SIMPSON.

Declared this 8th day of November, 1898, before me—James Hazlett, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

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