ANUNUSUAL BANKRUPTCY:

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 1

ANUNUSUAL BANKRUPTCY:

A DEBTOR AND HIS WIPE. crt f i^si“. ihc estate of itwmas Inland, of Dunedin, dork, m Sold in the Official Assignee’* offiry veeterday afternoon. Mr w!l. Moored ' peared lor a creditor (the debtor’* wifeT ! bankrupt s statement showed; TJoae- * cured creators, £Bl5 Ife. Th e nrjndS 1 unsecured creditor is the dAtors X Z Darina Deland, her statement of dazm J tmg out £269 IBs 8d on a jndStSrfS - npreme Com t, roam tenance doe i uwiT, mt tht £6 8d ’ fctare uwiutenaßo* \ ram , Aa ’ d a g«®»ent estimated al i ’ nil futme “««tenan» for his child ■’ J7s v Other- creates are: Adams Bros., '! ~ J on , JJ. M. bntheriand, £8 2s- G I. Dcnmston, £1 Is Sd. ’ Bankrupt, in a written efcawsmfiot, said < that in July. 1304. he entered into a drod • her£2 T Wlth b * to pav '= j fir a uicmth for her maintenance , 1/ ? fW 3 month for the maintenance of his-infant soil It waa the accumulated ■ Jiabditj under this dead that pehe,] him to file. Until May, 1906, he uas able to make the payments asbgreed, / but from tliat time onwards he had never 1 " n m a position to do so * (, n ' Jrn.e 1906,. on account rf ' ment in the Corporation service, be lost iris employment there, and had since been unahle. to obtain constant work. This had been due partly to lack of commercial training, but chiefly to ifl-bealth. The oidy steady work he had had since June, 1906, was with the Otago Farmers’ Co-* operative Association (from June, 19f»_ to September, 1909), and he had then ar accumulation of debts to pay. The doc tors strongly recommended ban to give up this job as the work was too much for him. and he had to resign. H« 23»» a 1 detailed statement of thie various fHmy wUi whom be had been, ampkyed aoat June, 1906, and.stated .that.his earning over the whofei period averaged «pppocdmately _£l 6s 2d per week. lb dmaeSt hie wife leaned a writ against hiipfnan £'yi7 Sup il? n? 4 Coari shaming the sum «f £207, with interest, for moneys due under =. the agreement of separation. j-fc, ( 10^ I 8d WaS Bie * e ‘ l " In answer to qttasiions. bad no property. Ho bad no money to toy - his. wife wiine he was with the Otaco ‘ Faunas had to pay up boawiaS 3 lodging, that was due to his mother. Hr* 5 paid W at the rate of £1 a week. 31 r Moore : lou. would sooner have vottr ; wife a creditor than your mother? * Bankrupt: She is not destitute. - creditor, ohjected to Mr Moore introducing the per--6°l~ He know llie young mnn and while he was out of work hThad to give him money to see him through. - Bankrupt said that neither his wifo por child was m need. He was in need. He owed his mother about six months’ hack maintenance when be went to work at the Otago Farmers.

Mr Moore said that there was ncU>in rir to be gained by any further examination" A case similar to this one arose jn Wellington at the beginning of the month, when an an application was made -to annul the bankruptcy. It appeared to him that the bankrupt in this case had deliberately gone out of his way to abuse the procedure of the Bankruptcy Court, so to do liis wife out of any money he might earn later on. " ‘ ' The Assignee said that the only didcr enco in the two cases was that the man in Wellington had an estate and this man hail not. Anv resolution passed would he in favor of tiie wife, because site hold the Toting power. The only thing to do wa* to adjourn the meeting sane die. Mr Moore .'ail lie had no doubt* that an appji cation would l>e Rtade to annul ihe bankruptcy before bankrupt applied to the J udg<i for liZf> <jisr.h.argt?.