§ Return ordered, "of casualties to ships, in the form set out below, showing the date; name and class of the ship damaged; nature of the accident; the number of persons injured; the number of deaths (if any); the result of any inquiry that may have been held into the circumstances; and time in dockyard for repairs, during the year ending the 31st day of December, 1902:— if his attention has been called to cases last year of breaches of trust by a sole surviving trustee which came before the courts; and if he proposes to take any steps for the protection of beneficiaries either by a compulsory application of the Judicial Trustees Act, 1896, or the establishment of a public trustee and executor.
991§ (Answered by Sir Robert Finlay.) This Question relates to a matter of great importance which has been from time to time under the consideration of the Government. I do not at present see how it would be practicable to make the application of the Judicial Trustees Act compulsory, but the question of the establishment of a public trustee may require consideration if the working of that Act proves unsatisfactory.