NURSERYMAN'S DIFFICULTIES

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 6

NURSERYMAN'S DIFFICULTIES

"RAD WEATHER AND ILL LECK.' .V. .lull. jun.. in a statement submirted 10 .he Official .Wtgntv in ____•_- ---ruptev gives his liabilities as ti'7o ]'» '.». . and .islets .fill _ I. including furniture • valued at £l-">. ll'' <*a;es ilia; in J 013 j ' hv entered int.. |>artnersliip a: Te Kuiti j 'as gardener and nur.ery.nan. The part- I ncr owned ihe J_la<=- liou-it- and del .or j ' gave the labour, on the agreement Ih-.lt ! Ihe wan to share the profits. They j ' opened a shop .1: Te Kuiti. md debtor 1 ' came to An.-kla.nl and pun-has _d go-ids ,10 ihe value of about -•"*. He also put 1 | .__<! personally into the ;_i.ino._. To-' i wards the end of .Inly. 10111. .1 heavy fr.mt ruined nearly everything in lhe I glass house an.l : hex '..*: over _7<l. j The partnership was then dissolved, debtor giving his partner promissory notes to the amount l r of _lt>4 l_/_ for his share of the •' liabilities, and he understood ilia*, the ' partner was to pay all damns. The business was sold by the partner for | £20. anil there w.i.- slis-k 10 the value 'of £25 in the glass house, for which - debtor claimed he had nut be.-n given credit. He nexl rented two glasti ' houses al 22- per week and also liotf rowed t7"> on promissory notes, lie j had 10 buy plains in Auckland, ivid could not get any re; urn till lhe end of ] December. I'll:5. As his plants were put in six w-ceks late lie did not get lOd per ib -for his tomatoes, but only 4.1. As ' his late partner wanted payment of the promissory note overdue he had no op- j tion hut to file, lie attributed his pre- 1 sent position to bad weather and iii 1 . I lllck.