"TOO MUCH OF THIS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 10

"TOO MUCH OF THIS."

r* I * n CREDIT WITHOUT MEANS. c., 1S MAGISTRATE SPEAKS OUT. it ie e CONVICTION AT GISBORNE. ! ic d' i — y (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) t, GISBORNE, this day. "There is a great deal too much of d this all over New Zealand," said Mr. a Harper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court last evening in convicting Richard GalL j yer, bankrupt sharemilker, on two it charges of obtaining credit at a time e when he had no reasonable or probable ° expectation of being able to pay his j debts. These men get into a hopeless 1- position, he said, and carry on without r any hope of being able to pay their lfc debts. In fact, their actions amount to 11 . g obtaining g>ods under false pretences, s "It seems to me," added the inagistrate, "to be a pity that more informaIU tions are not laid. The requirements of e the Bankruptcy Act must be respected." The magistrate said that in October, s 1929, Galyer's debts amounted to £249. e The defence had made a great fuse about e an amount of £75 which he expccted to receive and £09 which he did actually receive, but it seemed very suspicious t that he spent the whole of the £09 in purchasing large quantities of stores r from persons with whom he had not e previously dealt with. ■- Accused was ordered to conic up for t sentence if called on within three x months. The magistrate dismissed charges against Galyer pf obtaining - credit for. £100, without disclosing the 1 fact that he was an undischarged banke rupt and disposing of pther than by t sale in the ordinary way. of trade a milking plant, payments on which he 7 had not completed. y ,