A BANKRUPT’S PLAINT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3945, 30 May 1913, Page 2

A BANKRUPT’S PLAINT.

MEETING OF CREDITORS AT

AUCKLAND

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.I AUCKLAND, May 29

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of William A. Oldham, diningroom proprietor of Ngaruawahia, was held at the office of the Official Assignee this morning. In his statement bankrupt said that when he started his capital amounted to €5 and he was then owing about £IOO. He had -paid’ off most of the £IOO originally owing, but a judgment summons against him had forced him to tho bankruptcy court. ‘T made arrangements with the lessee of a vacant railway section which adjoins my premises” continued bankrupt, “and when tho Land Court started I erected a marquee to act as a dining room. I did not want Natives hi the regular dining'rooms, because it would have spoilt the white trade. The chairman of the Town Board repeatedly interfered with anything I wished to do. In this instance lie objected to Maoris having their meals in the town. He desired them to go nearly lialf-a-mile away, and summoned me to Court for erecting a marquee. To the Railway Department I wrote explaining my side of the case, and the Department was quite willing to give me a transfer of the lease providing the Town Board approved, by the chairman seems to have pretty well his own wav in ail Itings. so that was the end -if my n aping any benefit from the Maori, at Native Land Court time. In consequence, I consider my business has been, greatly rmterilrred with and spoilt to a very large extent.” The Assignee was instructed to dispose of the business to the lest ac-

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