A MISSING BANKRUPT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 224, 21 September 1922, Page 7

A MISSING BANKRUPT.

» — I irty Tutejrrapb — fros.-. Assocti^lon-t ' WELLINGTON, this day. The public examination of Harold I Richard Peard. auctioneer and restaurant proprietor, was fixed for this morning |ia the Bankruptcy Court before Mr. -Insj tice Salmond. but the debtor failed, to I answer to bit n_mc. Mr. Kennedy i for the Official Assignee) B aid Peard bad given an address in Auckland, but per- ' sonal service could not be effected, and 1 though notice was sent by registered J post it was not likely to ban- reach*..! j him iv time for the present sitting. ■ Peard had apparent !y come to Wolling- ' ton prior to i-Je p- -ting of the notice. IHe suggested a fixture nt a ilistunt date. Mr. f'oldsbroiiKli ioiic of the largest I creditors! fold the Court that iif had : reason to believe that I'ejird bad iefi ! New Zealand or tvu, in hiding. Nothing Iliad been sacn of itini fur.a considerable , time, though cN'hoilstivc iu<|uiries had | lieeu niade. Hie "suggested that, an nrrler ibe made to bring him beiore the ("curt las an abscondinp debtor. His Honor snialie wotiid consider that I matter if it were put before him in | Chamber*, supported by affidavits. In I the meantime lie adjourned the ens.- for i a month. I