A JOCKEY’S FALL
FROM AFFLUENCE TO PENURY
BANKRUPTCY OF HECTOR GRAY
NEW PLYMOUTH, April 6. Reduced from a position of affluence as the leading jockey in the Dominion to a state of penury, Hector Gray met his creditors in New Plymouth to-day in bankruptcy. He attributed his failure to the sentence of life disqualification from the pursuit of his profession and his creditors. on the whole, were sympathetic, instructing the D.O.A. to facilitate his discharge, providing an investigation of the estate proved satisfactory. Unsecured creditors totalled £939 and, after the realisation of the assets, bankrupt estimated his deficiency at £324. He disclosed that he now had no interest in any jacehorses and said he had lost £15,000 on two farming ventures.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10377, 7 April 1927, Page 5
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