PAINTER'S BANKRUPTCY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 303, 20 December 1913, Page 10

PAINTER'S BANKRUPTCY.

Cecil Clive Kew, painter, of Onehunga. has filed a petition to be adjudicated a bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Tuesday, December 23rd, at 2.30 p.m. His total liabilities are set down at £45 0/6, and assets nil. The creditors include two grocers, a baker, milkman, butcher, ironmonger, and painter, the highest claim being for flO 15/10. Debtor states he is a married man with two young children. He arrived in Auckland from New South Wales on the 23rd of March last with £!) cash. He worked for the Railway, but owing to bad -weather and sickness only earned about 30/ per week. After leaving the Railway he was out of work for about live weeks. Altogether, during the nine months in Auckland, he had been unemployed for 13 weeks. As he had no money to buy furniture he had to hire it. which increased his cost of living. The debts were incurred when he was out of work. He was now in regular work at £3 per week, if time was unbroken. He had no assets, and bad to borrow his filing fee.