BAILIFF’S VIEW
Credit Too Easy (N.Z. Press Association) NELSON. Oct. 5. A “staggering” amount of credit could be obtained with little difficulty, the retiring bailiff at Nelson (Mr D. C. Pedersen) said today. “The Justice Department seems to have developed into a debt-collecting agency and often very little effort is made to recover money before Court action is taken," he said Mr Pedersen, who completes 45 years in the Civil Service tomorrow, said he doubted whether it was ever intended that debt-collecting should be the main occupation of his section of the Justice Department People who incurred debts were not all indigent. Mainly they were people who were poor managers of finance and they came up regularly in Court. An investigation as to one’s ability to pay before credit was granted would, he considered, save a lot of headaches for business people—and the Justice Department s bailiffs.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30873, 6 October 1965, Page 18
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