STANDS ALONE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 5

STANDS ALONE.

SOLITARY BUTCHER. FILES IN BANKRUPTCY. PARTNERSHIP BROKEN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. "The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker." The age-old partnership is now broken, and a solitary butcher stands alone. Why? Well, in 1933 (latest figures) the candle-stick maker manufactured 2,424,948 candles, strange as it may seem in these days of electricity. The Year Book is silent on the number of loaves manufactured by the baker, but he and his fellow tradesmen used 6,140,229 bushels of wheat. For the butcher and his fellows 3,50G,134 sheep and 8,825,422 lambs were slaughtered in 1934. Presumably the same lavish supply was available in 1935 and during last year, but one butcher, sadly enough a Chriatchurch one, failed to make a success of his business in spite of th« ample Bupply of meat available, and, to get to the point was adjudicated bankrupt. The butcher was not accompanied by a baker or the aforesaid candlestick maker, but there were, nevertheless, eleven other companions in misfortune They were a carpenter, a sharebroker a produce merchant, a relief worker, a fruiterer, a stationer, a market gardener a salesman, a caretaker, a farnier, and a grocer Two applications were made on behalf of deceased estates, and one on behalf of a company. In 1935 there were eighteen bankruptcies compared with the fifteen last year. In 1934 there were thirty-three In 1929—Ah! How busy was the Official' Assignee and his staff—there were seventeen in one month.