SHORT BUSINESS CAREER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 155, 4 July 1927, Page 10

SHORT BUSINESS CAREER.

BANKRUPT AFTER NINE DAYS. After being in business on bis own account for only nine days, and having contracted what he called "household" debts to the extent of £93 8/9, Jack Leviticus Money, a pastrycook, faced a meeting of his creditors in Wellington. Bankrupt stated that the debts were not incurred in connection with his business. He further stated that he had been employed by Green and- Son, pastrycooks, for the past two years at a salary of £5 15/ per week. Sometimes he.ha'd earned as much as £6 per week. He was a married man with three children, • and j was paying £3 per week for a furnished house of four rooms. Mr. A. Collins, secretary of the Wellington Bakers and Pastrycooks' Union, said that bankrupt had been given. a chance to pay off his debts and that he had failed to do so. It was decided to circularise the creditors to the effect that Mr. Collins had moved that the bankrupt be publicly examined.