MEETINGS OF CREDITORS

Evening Star, Issue 18716, 19 August 1924, Page 9

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS

AH TOIVOKY BAKBE. A meeting of creditors in the estate of Peter Kydd Low, baker, of Dunedin, was held at the Law Courts yesterday morning, and presided over by Mr E. W. Cave, Official Assignee. Assignee. The liabilities, all unsecured, amount to £lOl 5e sd, tho principal creditors being Murray and Robertson (Gore), £2O 14s; Mrs Bulmer (landlady), £ls; A, and J. Watt, £lO ss.

Mr D. J. Cooke appeared for the debtor, Mr 11. S. Bremner for J. Aitchiaon (Waikouaiti), and Mr W. Ward for Airs Bulmer. Mr J. A. Johnston represented the Otago Co-operative Milk Supply, and Mr Aubrey Wright was also present. In his sworn statement the debtor set out that lie was a journeyman baker by trade, was manned in 1921, and had two children. Ho worked in Gore for twelve mouths, and was then, idle for eight months owing to his employer going out of business. In November of 1923 ho came to town to work for Samuel Bros., and remained there for sixteen months, and then worked at Waikouaiti. He found it cheaper to live in tho country. It meant a lot of expense having to shift from house to house in Waikouaiti. After six months he lost his job, a former employee being pul on. It was five weeks before he again found employment in town for J. R, Brown and Co. He owed £47 when lie left Waikouaiti. Ho. was at Brown’s for three months, and was then out for three weeks. He then relieved at Sandon’s for eight weeks, then was out of work for twelve weeks, when he got a temporary job with the Telegraph Department. He had had a deal (ri sickness in tho family. He attributed his* present position to that and to his being so much out of work.

Mr Cooke said the position was plain. When debtor loft Gore lie hud £2 12s. In twenty-four months he had been thirteen months out of work'. His present position in the Telegraph Department was onlv temporary, but it might become permanent.

Answering questions, the debtor^ said that'his present regular pay was £3 17s per week. His furniture for two rooms and a kitchen in Cargill road was worth about £25. The magistrate at Waikouaiti had made an order on a judgment summons for the payment of 2s 6d per week duo to Webster and Austin, and he had paid Zls fid. It was not true that on the bib inst. he was at the Caledonian Hotel and paid 2s at the bar. He had been to the races once this year, but did not put anything on the totalisator. Mr Wright said ho thought that Low should he able to pay something by insta-i men is.

He moved, and Mr Ward seconded, a motion that the discharge be opposed until the debtor paid instalments totalling 10s in the £, and this was carried. Debtor said ho would try to make these payments, and would be willing to do more if lie could.