IN BANKRUPTCY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 802, 12 February 1909, Page 4

IN BANKRUPTCY.

-*i J. A. HUBNER, MAKINO. John Albert Hubner, carpenter, Makino, has filed a petition m bankruptcy His financial statement is as follows -.—Unsecured creditors, £405 16s; secured creditors, &-U Is; total debts £405 16s. Assets, book debts estimated to produce £2o ss. furniture £50, surplus from securities in barids of secured creditors £362 19s, total assets £439 4s; estimated surplus £33 8s- The unsecured creditors of Feilding are as follows: J. Darragh £53 5s Bd, A. H. Sutton and Co. £10 8s 9d, S. Svendsen £2 6s, P. Thomson £3 ls 9d, W. F. Willis £2 17s 6d, J. Cobbe 14s 63, A G. Walker 18s 7d, E. J. Kennedy and 00. 13s, S. A. Parkes £1 •/*. J. Weitrhtman and Son (Awahuri) os Bd. F.°G. Woollams 13s 6d, G. Townsend £8 3s "lOd, J. P. Rutherford £8 19s, sd, A. H. Atkinson and Co. £3 17s 6d, Oroua County Council 13s 9d. Lochbead and Co. £2 Is 6d J. Wbite ss, G. Barry and Co. £2 10s. W. Carthew £1 6s 7d, J. Campbell lis 9d, G. Bartholomew and Co. £101 9s lld, Spence and Spence £16 16s 3d. The only secured creditor is Mrs H. M. Goldfinch, of Feilding, the security being valued at £600 against £237 Is, the amount of the debt. ESTATE OF T. A. DURRAN. At the first meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Thomas Albert Durran, canvasser, Feilding, bankrupt's financial statement showed his total debts to be £249 19s 9d, and his assets £20, leaving a deficiency of £229 19s 9d. In his written statement he said that he came to Feilding about two and a half years ago with a little stock of jewellery, but no money, and started business. He had not made any headway, but had endeavoured to make a living by selling jewellery and fancy goods. He also ran a shooting gallery at Marton, but with no better success, and, a 6 several creditors were threatening to sue him, he had no option but to file. He had no offer to make his creditors. Cross-examined, bankrupt stated that he kept a book np till Christmas, 1907, which was destroyed by his child. He sold the shooting gallery for £10 and his stock for £6. The mqeting terminated without any resolution being passed.