A BANKRUPT'S ALLEGATIONS.
[BY TELEGKAra — PQE3S ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 25th March. The creditors oE Reeco Nicholson, a storekeeper, of Whitianga, near Mercury Bay, met to-day at tho office of the Official Assignee. The meeting was adjourned last week in order that the presence of Mrs. Nicholson might be ensured. In roply to tho Official Assignee, Mrs. Nicholson said she started storekeeping three or four years ago. She admitted having dealt with several firms mentioned by the Official Assignee. In respect to one of the bills for £16, which- she swore had been paid, the representative of the firm in question denied that any money had been received. Mrs. Nicholfcon said that she had receipts,, but when the store was fumigated last August all the receipts and bills were burnt. The Assignee : Do you state seriously that you had a receipt, and yet no entry of the payment was made in the firm's books ? •Askod if she had ever received a registered letter threatening to make her insolvent if she did not settle her bill, witness said : I don't remember receiving such a letter. The Assignee : How Boon do you say you received tho receipt after sending tlie money? — About a week, I suppose. It was burned like the others? — Yes. Witness added that she had paid " a fourth creditor, and owed the firm iv question nothing. The Assignee : Then your impression is that all these firms are trying to take advantage of you? — It looks very much like it. " I don't usually expi'ess my opinion as -I have done in this case," concluded the Assignee, after giving his opinion of witness's evidence, "but the only alternative to believing that you have lied is that we have a most unscrupulous set of merchants in this town." • Mrs. Nicholson (tearfully) : "So there is — a lot of scoundrels." Before Mrs. Nicholson signed her Bworn statement, the Assignee warned her of the danger of a prosecution for perjury, but she persisted that her evidence was true in every detail.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1909, Page 2
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334A BANKRUPT'S ALLEGATIONS. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1909, Page 2
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