TWO-UP SCHOOL
BANKRUPT'S LOSSES
DISSATISFIED CREDITORS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBOBNE, This Day. ' An indieatioii that tho matter would have to>bo referred 'to tlie Crown Prosecutor .was given'by tho Official Assignee, Mr. Naldbr, at tho conclusion of thp re-oxamiiiation" of Thouias Good 1 all, a ..bankrupt freezing worker. : ' .' At tiro first meeting of creditors Gooda.ll, who was adjudged bankrupt on a creditors1 petition, stated tliat.he had lost approximately £400 in three nights at two-up, and as he was unable to giro any information as to tho locality of tho two : up schools or the names of other players tho meeting was . adjourned till, yesterday to euable him to supply that information. Yesterday Goodall was'still unable to enlighten the meeting, and when a list of known two-up pla3rcrs was submitted to him by counsel fov the petitioning creditors, he stated that all were unfamiliar to liim, The meeting was further aajournod ■ for a week to enable him to endeavour to locate other players. "The position is extremely unsatisfactory," said the Assignee.. "It seems obvious at the moment that the matter will have to bo roferred to the Crown Prosecutor and I would liko to be able to do so in the-fullest form possible. "What the bankrupt has given so far. is of no value at all."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 23
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214TWO-UP SCHOOL Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 23
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