FAMILY HONOUR.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 2

FAMILY HONOUR.

A fine sense of family honour svas evidenced in connection svith a case svhich came under the jurisdiction ot the Official Assignee in Christchurch. A man svho svas adjudged a bankrupt in 1906, died, having paid no dividend to creditors, to svhom he osved some £200. This unpaid liability was a burden upon his son's mind, and before going to the war he insured his life for £200. and made provision in a svill that £200 odd osving to his ffliber's creditors should be deducted from the amount duo under the policy should he lose his life, and that the debt should Iks sviped out therewith. The lad svas killed in action on Gullipoli on May 2, 1917. The creditors received 20s in tho £.