PIANO COMPANY’S TROUBLES

Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 4

PIANO COMPANY’S TROUBLES

A LIQUIDATOR APPOINTED

Pro mi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, March 23, (Received March 24, at 9.20 jum.)

A liquidator lias been appointed for the Brinsmead Pianoforte Manufacturing Company, which was formed in 1916 with a capita! of £103,000 to acquire the business of a comnanv winch was formed in 1899. The failure is attributed to losses in. 1919-20’ and owing to Die low output and subsequent labor troubles. After (he assets are realised there will still 1» £2.5,000 owing to second debenture holders, and £25,000 to unsecured creditor*.—-A. and N.Z. Cable.

Mr Samuel La Trobe, one of tho original Aibertland (Auckland) settlers, died on Sunday at Parnell, at the ago of eighty-two. Mr La Trobe arrived in New Zealand in 1862, in (ho ship Hanover, and after spending Homo lime in the north he engaged in business in Auckland. Ho served r.c? a volunteer in tho Maori War in tho Waikato, gaining tho war medal •mid blbo the Now Zealand modal. IJo was afterwards farming in the Waikato, and later went into business at Henderson, retiring sixteen years ago to live at Tnkapuna. Ho had been connected with tho Baptist Tabernacle and the Y.M.C.A. movement in Auckland for many years. One of the deceased’s sons is Director of Technical Instruction at Wellington.