to which the trust estate reverted upon failure of beneficiaries under the trust deed. The number of trust estates administered by the Official Trustee therefore remained unchanged at eleven.
100. The Registrar General continued to act as Judicial Trustee of one estate on behalf of which $8,029.50 was held on current account at the close of the year.
Trust Funds
101. Table XXV sets out the Official Trustee's receipts and pay- ments for the year, and the assets and liabilities of the trusts administered by him as at 31st March, 1961. The Official Trustee's commission charged in the year amounted to $467.33 including $349.99 on the net value of the trust estate received. At the end of the year the total funds administered by the Official Trustee amounted to $202,619.56.
Belilios Stars
102. In 1884 Emanuel Raphael Belilios, then one of Hong Kong's leading citizens and a great philanthropist, set up a trust fund with the object inter alia of rewarding acts of 'conspicuous valour or self-denial (whether a life or lives be thereby saved or not) done within the Colony of Hong Kong at a fire or in any quarrel, fight, breach of the peace or otherwise howsoever, or within the Hong Kong, Canton or Macao waters'. The trust deed provided for the award of Belilios Stars for such acts of bravery. These are of two kinds: the bronze eight-pointed Star awarded for bravery at sea, and the five-pointed silver Star for bravery on land. The Official Trustee now administers the trust and makes the awards after submission to the Governor for his approval. A monetary award may also be made either in conjunction with the award of a Star or where no Star is awarded.
103. Since the war eleven Stars (seven bronze and four silver) have been awarded and eighteen monetary awards ranging from $25 to $100 have been made, seven in conjunction with Stars. These figures. include the award during the year of a bronze Star and $100 to Lam Wong-choi, who, being then a sanitary coolie in the employment of the Urban Services Department, on three occasions plunged into the sea at Cheung Chau at the height of typhoon 'Mary' on 9th June, 1960 to rescue fisher folk from sampans which had capsized or were in difficulties. The brave rescuer was subsequently transferred to the post of Life Guard in the same Department.
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