WHANGAREI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 July 1928, Page 8

WHANGAREI NEWS.

HEW COURTHOUSE PREMISES,

BANKRUPTCY OF A DEALER.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, this day.

The Chamber of Commerce ceived advice from the Minister of Justice that all preliminaries in connection with the alteration of the railway building to make it suitable for a courthouse are complete, and the work will be put in hand immediately. Trade in bottle collecting having become slack in March. 1927, Richard Warren Jones, of Whangarei, left his truck in a, shed and went down the coast, where he built a camp and started wood-cutting. He signed an agreement drawn up by Major Campbell, and after cutting 173 tons of tea-tree and having it hauled to the beach for shipment, he came to Whangarei and received aa advance of £70 from firewood merchants. He began to make arrangements for shipping the tea-tree, but was prevented from doing so by the owner of the property, who said the agreement specified the cutting of 1000 tons before any wood was removed. Later Jones had a collision with a milk cart. These were the principal factors, he said, which had his bankruptcy. He met his creditors to-day. The deputy-assignee said that bankrupt should have concentrated upon one truck, instead of having dealings with eight. A quorum not being present, no resolution wag pas sed, . IE I