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office from that of Registrar of the Supreme Court.
It appeared to me that while
Bankruptcies have during the past 3 years been abnormally
frequent owing to many failures in business, the work of
the Land Office must owing to depression in business have
decreased; and that perhaps the additional appointment
recommended by the Chief Justice might be unnecessary, at
any rate for the present.
I replied in that sense to Sir F.
Piggott and I added that on the return of Mr. G. H. Wake-
*mari Land Officer and Official Receiver, who was absent
on leave, I would give the matter further consideration.
3.
I have now received a report on
the subject from Mr. Wakeman, copy enclosed, and after
giving the matter very careful consideration I have come
to the conclusion that it is necessary that there should
be an Officer who can devote the whole of his time to the
work in the Official Receiver's Department, and that for
the reasons given by Mr. Wakeman the best arrangement
would be to add an Officer as Deputy Official Receiver.
Bankruptcies of private individuals
4.
are rare in this Colony. Those that occur are almost in-
-variably Bankruptcies of Commercial Undertakings. The
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