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work has however been done, and it is hoped to make some substantial progress next year. In the meantime payments out of the trusts con- cerned have been suspended.
119. Three petitions were presented to the Court, all in respect of the same trust, for orders relating to the investment of the trust funds and the payment of the income therefrom to the beneficiary. Orders thereon were duly obtained.
120. The Registrar General continued to act as Judicial Trustee of one estate on behalf of which $8,354.50 was held on current account at the close of the year.
Trust Funds
121. Table XXXVI 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 1962. Payments to beneficiaries totalled $1,906.17 and the Official Trustee's commission amounted to $139.09. At the end of the year the total funds administered by the Official Trustee amounted to $207,157.19.
Belilios Stars
122. 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, devotion 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. The standard set is very high, and since the war only ten Stars (seven bronze and three silver) have been awarded. In addition eighteen monetary awards ranging from $25 to $100 have been made, eight in conjunction with Stars.
123. On 8th March 1962 a Silver Star and $100 were presented to Mr. TONG Shu-lin, a Sham Shui Po shopkeeper, for an act of conspicuous bravery of a character unique in the post-war history of the Belilios Star. Whereas all the other post-war Stars have been awarded for
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