"IMPUDENT ROGUE"

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 8

"IMPUDENT ROGUE"

BANKRUPT RESTAURANT

KEEPER

NOT DESERVING OF CON

SIDES ATION.

(By Telegraph.}

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day

"Ho seems to have been deliberately swindling his creditors by sending money to his father in Greece. A rogue like that does not deserve any consideration at all—an impudent rogue at that." These remarks were made by Mr: Justice Sim when Constantino Soumaras, a restaurant-keeper, who had applied for his discharge at a previous sitting of tho Court, made an application under section 62 of the Bankruptcy Act for an order for payment of money towards tho discharge of his debts.

The bankrupt, in evidence, said that his parents, who were between sixty and seventy years of age, were destitute and suffering great hardship, like most of his countrymen, and consequently he worked «11 night and sometimes till 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. It was true that ho had sent money out of New Zealand, but if his people had been Greeks living in New Zealand ho would have had to maintain them. The Official Assignee said that th« bankrupt's debts were over £1000, and it was stated that he hail left a town ii. the North Island without paying his debts. His Honour ordered the bankrupt to pay an amount sufficient to satisfy all preferential claims in full, and pay a dividend of 5s in the £.