BANKRUPT SENTENCED
FOR OBTAINING CREDIT
Four times adjudged a bankrupt, and twice senteneced to imprisonment for breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, John. Henry Whitaker, a middle-aged studmaster, pleaded guilty before Mr. E Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day to having obtained more than £20 credit from Messrs. J. C. Hutton (N.Z.), Ltd., without first having told the firm that he was an undischarged bankrupt.
Mr. P. S. K. Macassey, who prosecuted, said that Whitaker was adjudged bankrupt at Auckland in 1812; at Gisborne in 1918; at Napier in 1922----and recently at Wellington. The total amount of the credit obtained in the present case, was £38 Cs 6d, but since his last bankruptcy the defendant had incurred liabilities totalling £492. To meet this ho had assets which he valued at £50,. but these would probably realise only £10.
Ttio Magistrate imposed a sentence of four months' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 10
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147BANKRUPT SENTENCED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 10
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