to be Registrar of Companies and ___ Official Trustee. I have declined to accede to Mr Ackroyd's request to be allowed to draw the salary formerly separately assigned to the first of_ these offices as it appeared to me. to be contemplated by Your Lordship that it should in future form part of the regular duties of the bet Registrar of the Supreme Court. Dey!
2.
As regards the
Official Trustee it was ordered
on
10th November, 1880, that Mr. Plunket, Registrar of Supreme Court, who also held that office and had been. remunerated by fees, should in future receive
- salary of $240.
a
per
See po
$300
on 1485.
per
annum and
188
pay all fies into the Treasury. When M. Plunket obtained leave, Mr. Sangster, Deputy Registrar,
was
appointed Acting Official Trustee, and he continued to hold this
till he went Office
on leave last March when he applied that he might be allowed to resume it on his return from leave. Mr. Gibbons did not therefore at any
time
perform the duties of Official Trustee.
3.
been made in the Estimates for --
this sa
salary
No provision has
which has been paid
hitherts out of the unexpended
portions of other salaries of the
Supreme