BANKRUPT CHINAMAN.
SENDS MONEY BgOME. LEAVES DEBTS UNPAID. An hour's interrogation of Wong Ivec, a bankrupt fruiterer, by the Official Assignee and creditors, this morning, failed to elicit any satisfactory answers and the matter was adjourned for a week in order that the bankrupt might be represented. His debts to unsecured creditors totalled £291 10/, and his assets were nil. Wong came to New Zealand five years ago, when he was twenty. He went to Shannon, later to a Chinese poultry farm at Mangere, and then started out hawking vegetables. Later he opened shops in Onehunga and Remuera. The Assignee could not obtain any clear answers from the bankrupt. ■ Tho latter admitted that lie had sent £100 home to China, fifteen months ago, when he was apparently insolvent. The Assignee 6aid that he .was under the opinion that bankrupt was telling a string of untruths and on his suggestion the meeting was adjourned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 88, 15 April 1925, Page 4
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