A LABOURER'S BANKRUPTCY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17058, 1 February 1921, Page 4

A LABOURER'S BANKRUPTCY.

A inciting of tha creditors bl Grey Skipper, labourer, of Little River, was to have been ba.'i yesterday aiternoon, but lapsed as a quorum was not present. The total debts amounted to £166 Os Bd, j and the assets r.ero uil. The- unsecured creditors wore:—J. P. Elliott, storekeeper, Little River. 122 Cs od: >,'. Z. Farmers' Coexfoliative Association, £l2B 3s Od; T. K. Taylor, storekeeper, Little Biver, £8; It. Dyer, butcbtr. Little River, £3 IDs; W. JtcPhe-r- ---&™, painter. Little River, £1 85 6d; V. Lino, saddler, Little' River, £i; G. Columbus, blacksmith, Little River, XI.TLo bankrupt, in his siforn btatement, said that he was « marred man with five children, ranging in age from 14 to 27 yaara. He had been in Hi-health; had done practically no work for five years, and bid ehiidreii had helped to support him. His wife owned about. ?.i acres at Little River with a house 011 it, in which bankiupt lived. In pjf,t ynais he had sold gra&s seed to the Fanners' Co-operative Association, and 'th» proceeds had been, generally, just sufficient to pay his year's accounts for supplies. The land rrom which the frraas seed was cut is ownad jointly by six Natives, including bankrupt's wife, and hiL'i been leased this year, and his wife's share of the ervais seed araour.ted to only -Is bags. Creditors had obtained judgment summonses against hina, and he had been ci.mpdbd to .lie. He had small interest in ioiue Xative land.