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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

work