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# OFFICIAL TRUSTS.
23. The number of trust estates in the hands of the Official Trustee at the end of the year was 20. The invested funds totalled $181,700.59 and £2,850 and the cash balance $11,722.92. 2 trusts were wound up during the year, and no trust was opened.
24. The amount of commission collected was $478.46 against $171.19 in 1932.
# REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES.
25. On the 31st December there were 722 companies on the Hong Kong register, of which 81 were in course of liquidation. 194 companies incorporated outside the Colony and not on the Hong Kong register have registered the requisite documents.
26. During the year 94 new companies were put on the register and 46 companies were struck off. No company was transferred from the Hong Kong to the Shanghai register.
27. The fees collected in respect of "China" companies amounted to $141,342.40, and those in respect of other companies to $25,298.20. The fees for licences to keep local registers amounted to $2,884.76.
28. No firm was registered under the Chinese Partnerships Ordinance, 1911, and no firm was registered under the Limited Partnerships Ordinance, 1912.
29. Deposits to the total value of $4,146,666 have been made by Insurance Companies under the Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Deposit Ordinance, 1917, $1,618,700 representing cash deposits.
30. Deposits under the Life Insurance Companies Ordinance, 1907, amount to $1,147,000, of which $282,000 is by cash deposits.
31. The increase in the work of the Companies Registry during the past five years is shown in Table II appended to this report.
# REVENUE.
(FEES, COMMISSION, &C.).
32. The total sum collected during the year by way of fees and commission amounted to $314,149.78 as against $325,052.69 in the previous year.