BANKRUPT GARDENER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31143, 20 August 1966, Page 20

BANKRUPT GARDENER

Meeting Of Creditors A meeting of creditors instructed the Official Assignee (Mr T. A. F. Withers) to oppose an application by Francis lan Hamilton, a landscape gardener, of 172 Langdons road, to be discharged from bankruptcy. The creditors asked that no discharge be granted until Hamilton had paid his debts in full. The Official Assignee told creditors that Hamilton’s total debts amounted to £6lO and his assets were worth £348. Hamilton admitted that he had previously been declared bankrupt with debts amounting to £306. He also owed the Inland Revenue Department £137. He said his present bankruptcy arose from the failure of his landscape gardening business. He had started this about five years ago and at first was making between £5O and £BO a week. Business had later fallen away and last year he had given it up altogether. Hamilton said he had held six jobs during the last 12 months. His landscape gardening tools and a car which had been obtained on hire purchase had been repossessed. The Official Assignee said the question of prosecution under the Bankruptcy Act would be considered.

Mr R. F. Young, hostel manager for the Rangiora High School for about nine years, will relinquish this position at the end of this term. At its meeting this week, the board expressed its appreciation to Mr Young for his services as hostel manager during a “long period of years” and formally recorded this in its minutes. Mr Young will continue as a teacher at the school.