BANKRUPT BRICKLAYER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 88, 14 April 1927, Page 9

BANKRUPT BRICKLAYER.

NOT FIT FOR BUSINESS.

CREDITORS (JET NOTHING.^

" This is another of those cases where a man is not fit to take on business on his own account, and I will oppose his discharge.

™R e f „ remarks were made by the Official Assignee (Mr. G. X. Morris) when a bankrupt, Albert Arthur Rubick bricklayer, of Homai, met his creditors' this morning. His deficiency was stated •to be £257, which was all owing to unsecured creditors.

Bankrupt in his statement said beinc out of work in August, 1924, and having been to several big firms in town with out success, he had decided to trr to get some chimneys to build on his own account. He had not kept books, and owed one firm a considerable sum Thev got judgment against him, and he filed 1 attribute my failure to lack of business training, illness, loss on several contracts, having to wait so Ion" for money after having done the work? and Jo having more work on hand at one rZI w" T , eOUM financ *," said bankrupt He also stated he was simplv a bricklayer working on wages when' he took up contracting, and he was now working on wages at £6 12/ a week. He J-ould make no offer to his creditors a. I,} ? T ,fe in '"'health, and four children to keep. As there was not a quorum present no resolution was passed.