CANDID BANKRUPT.
ADMiSSIONS TO CREDITORS. " (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 13. Liabilities amounting to £217 were*acknowledged by Frederick Hesketh,. formerly in business as a grain and pro- - duee merchant, and now a clerk, who - met his creditors to-day. Bankr-ipt who attributed his position • to poor salaries he had received in various occupations and to sickness, said i he had no assets. Lately he had got behind with his rent. Temporary work . was usually obtained at race meetings, - where he was engaged in the totalisator office at 30s a day. The Official Assignee: You have no one to keep, and yet you are so far be- - hind in your debts. Do you drink:' Bankrupt: Ye 3, whisky. It costs me about 26s a week. The Official Assignee: Twenty pounds in three months, and you are m debti* Do youbet?~Yes, I have been betting - a bit more than I should. Nearly all the boys at the totalisator "do in ' their wages trying to get a (bit more back. I - usually lost mine, and sometimes a lit- - tie more. ' - ' The Official Assignee: You are, at least, very candid. Bankrupt made an offer to pay dus--. a week to his creditors in reduction of his debts, and this was accepted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 4
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