NO HOPE OF PAYING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 10

NO HOPE OF PAYING

MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

GISBORNE, This Day.

"There is a great deal, too much of this all over New Zealand," said- Mr. Harper, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court. yesterday afternoon, when convicting Richard- Galyer,Ta.;, bankrupt sharemilker, on ■ two 'charges of obtaining credit'at a time when ho had no reasonable or probable expectation of being able to pay his debts. • "These men get into a hopeless position," he said, "and carry on without any hope of being able to' pay their debts. In .fact, their actions amount to ; obtaining-.■goods'.-by .false pretences. It* seems to mo a pity that more informations are not, laid. The requirements of tho Bankruptcy Act must be respected." . ■ . , The Magistrate said that in October, 1929, Galycr's debts amounted to £249. The defence made a great fuss about £75 which be expected to receive and £69 which he had actually received, but it seemed very suspicious that he spent the whole of the £69 purchasing large quantities of stores from persons with whom he had not dealt before. . , ' The accused was ordered to come up for sentence if'called on within three months.- . , The Magistrate dismissed charges against Galyer of obtaining credit for £100: without disclosing the fact that he was an undischarged bankrupt, and disposing of, other than by sale in-the: ordinary way of trade, of milking plant, the payments on which he had not completed. '*