BANKRUPTCY MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 87, 12 April 1923, Page 11

BANKRUPTCY MEETING

SiAWMII/L HAND'S AFFAIRS. An allegation that he had posed as a returned soldier in order to secure credit was made by a creditor against a pawmill hand pamed John Warnock, at a bankruptcy meeting held yesterday afternoon. The meeting had been adjourned from the morning in order that the bankrupt, who lives in Waikanae, might be present. Mr. S. Tansley, th« | Official Assignee, presided, Mr. W. E. Leicester appeared for J. A. Robertson, j and th'e only other creditor present was W, MouJton, a paperhanger of Eketahuna. ' " ' In reply to questions by the Official Assignee, the bankrupt said that he dirt not own property anywhere. He had intended to buy a house through the Repatriation Department, and had had the house papered throughout. Financial difficulties, however, had prevented his completing- purchase of the house. Mr. Tanslay: "Why did you spend money.von a- house which did not belong to you?"- ' bankrupt: "The Government said that I would have to carry out the work and put a stove in,. or., else I could not have the house." ■' "Why did you not file before ?"t-"I did not like the idea." Mr. Tansley: "I think your creditors would have liked the idea better than they do now," Mr. Moulton said, that Warnock had been drawing- £11 from the Eketahuna Borough Council, and on one occasion he had seen him drawing £50 from the Post Office Savingq Bank. This statement was denied by the bankrupt, who said that he had .never had a bank account. Mr. Moulton: "You got me to do this work under false pretences. You told me you were a returned soldier." Bankrupt: "I told'you no such thing." Mr. Moulton: "Ve-ry well, I have wit nesses to back up what I am saying.". Mr. Leicester! ''You had two fires When were they!"—"On 37th and 28th December." "What was the cause of the fires ?"-^ "I don'b know." .' "It wasn't for the purposes of burning off the furniture, was it!"—."No. The furniture' was not insured." Mr, Tans]ey said that in his opinion the bankrupt should have filed long ago. He was going back about £100 s year. The bankrupt could make no offer, and all he could do was to.-make inquiries regarding his statement. Th» meeting was adjourned sine die.