Migrants likely to lose money

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 7

Migrants likely to lose money

*.special (Correspondent) AUCKLAND. British immigrants who paid Quality Removals and Shippers, Ltd. of Birmingham, 10l have their belongings -hipped to New Zealand,! are unlikely to get any of their money back.; And those who cannot afford to pay a second time might not see their goods again. But efforts are now being made to aramge for goods stored but not shipped — believed to be worth almost Sim — to be forwarded to Australia. New Zealand and other countries. Mr K. Haddock, the Birmingham accountant who has been appointed trust liquidator for the firm, which went into liquidation two weeks ago, said that members of the British Association of Removers had

(stepped in to try to ease the plight of the immigrants. I It would be necessary forj freight charges to be paid ■ again, he said, but the firms' were offering concessionary I rates. I When individual claims ■ (against the company had l | been established, inventories checked, and the goods (identified, the owners could’ > arrange to have them shipped to New Zealand. “At the end of the day there are bound to be people who will not be able to pay a second time,” said Mr Haddock. “This will be a very real problem for us.” It was unlikely that any , money would be available, [ either for customers or creditors, when all the firm’s assets and liabilities had ; been determined, he said. People in New Zealand i who have not been contacted > should write to Mr Haddock t at: Units 20 and 21. Elmdon ■lTrading Estate, Dickenhill, II Warwickshire.