The total number of bankruptcies dealt with by the" Official Assignee at Auckland during 1939 was 48, an _ increase of seven on the corresponding figure for last year. There were three liquidations, against one in 1938. Durin« December, only one bankruptcy was recorded, against six in December last year. Contrary, to,the experience of recent years, farmers provide only a very small proportion of the failures, only three of them appearing in last year's records. A large number of trades and businesses.,is represented among the others, but there t are no professional, men' among them.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 3
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