Deaths Registry and cost of living allowance) in 1949/50 to $1,276,805; its revenue from $508,685 to $1,859,083 as follows:
Land Office
Marriages
Companies
Trade Marks
Patents
Official Receiver's Official Trustee
Births and Deaths
1949/50 $
1958/59
$
220,833
537,810
·
21,295
94,687
141,021
862,661
76,925
137,666
3.088
6,213
27,529
88
370
42,310
195,272
$508,685
$1,859,083
These increases were due partly to increases in fees, partly to the greatly increased volume of work being done.
87. The growth in the work of the Department is also illustrated by the following figures:
Deeds registered in Land Office
Marriages registered
Marriages performed
Companies on the Register
Trade Marks on the Register
Births registered
Deaths registered
Bankruptcy Funds held
1949/50
1958/59
6,814
18,278
2,185
7,954
1,794
7,134
2,356
3,322
5,541
15,284
54,774
106,624
16,287
20,554
$ 53,939
$ 796,665
$1,504,483
Companies Liquidation Account, Assets held. $116,644
During the decade, 102,217 instruments were registered in the Land Office requiring nearly 100 yards of shelving for the bound volumes of Memorials and 39,470 marriages, 2,642 companies, 11,077 new Trade Marks, 354 patents, 806,426 births, and 190,668 deaths were registered in the other Registries.
Acknowledgement
88. I cannot conclude this Report without expressing my thanks firstly to the other Government Departments and the Solicitors, Accountants and others with whom this Department is constantly in touch, for their assistance and co-operation, and secondly to the Acting Deputy Registrar General, the Legal Assistants, Assistant Registrars,
43.