IN BANKRUPTCY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 September 1925, Page 12

IN BANKRUPTCY.

ESTATE OF ALLAN ROBERTSON. LATE OF MANAIA. • A meeting of creditors in the estate of Allan Robertson, farmer, _of Jaonui, late of Manaia, was called s ester-day at New Plymouth. The Deputy-Official Assignee (Mr. J. S. S. Medley) presided, but there were no creditors present. Bankrupt was represented by Mr. P. M. Brooker. Bankrupt's estate showed debts to the amount of £‘l2lß Is fid, and the only assets were chattels to the value of £23 os, leaving a deficiency of £1194 16s 6d. There were no secured creditors. Tne unsecured creditors included: —Mrs. Tyrrel, Hawera, £500; Kaupokonui Hairy Company, storekeepers, £260; O’Dea and iJayley, solicitor's, Hawera, £B2; T. \V. Armitage, draper, Manaia, £4 10s; J. M. Boyd, surgeon, Kaponga, B 7 7s; J. Blake and Sons, motor engineers, Hawera, £l4; R. Carroll, Manaia, £22; J. A. _G. Cosgrove, saddler, Manaia, £2 15s; S. Campbell, Hawera, £3O; H. J. Eaves, storekeeper, Otakelio, £3l; Farmers Co-op. Hawera, £26 ss; Kenneth Fraser, iarmer, Oeo, £'s; Hawera General Transport Company, £7 3s; C Hunger, blacksmith, Manaia, £3 10s; Hawera Hospital Board, £5 16s; N. .Jones, saddler, Manaia, £1 10s; Ivaponga Nursing Home, £lO 10s ; T. Kennedy, blacksmith, Otakelio, £5 10s; W. A. Lind, storekeeper, Awatuna, £10; Dr. McArthur, late of Manaia, £lO 10s; Mortlock and Company, motor, engineers, Hawera, £42; \V. A. Par'kinson and Co., printers, Hawera, £10; J. Pettigrew, butcher, Otakelio, £9; George Syme and Co., Hawera, 18s. . In a written .statement, bankrupt said that lie and liis father took over a farm of 277 acres at. Oeo in 1917. llio father’s health failed, and in 1919 bankrupt rlisc.mtinnod pa’tneiis'hi.p, suo--1 eased 60 acres of his father’s farm, and isbarted milking on his own account. For four years he. worked on this farm under the Manaia Loan Co., who received all his cheques and allowed hiim £lO a month on which to live. In May. 19.23. hiis father, who had been unable to make a success of the farming, was sold u;p, and as bankrupt was extensively involved, be liad to walk off his farm with nothing. It was about finis time lie got seriourdy into debt owing to his low income. In May, 1922.” when driving a car belonging to foiis wile, lie met with ,a 1 mcitor laieeident as a result of which <a Mrs. Tyrrel had her leg broken. He was sued for damages, and Mrs. Tyrrel obtained judgment for £SOO. . giince leaving the farm tit Oeo he bad been share-milking for Mr Rw Bishop, ot Oaouuii. He was paying liis way, but ois he had a family of five chiikhen to support, and also bad to contribute towards t-lie suippoit of his father, wlio was an invalid, he was onilv jufib able to do -so. He regretted that lie ivaq anrW,e to make anv offer to hiis creditors. I-Te had no assets other than a plough. set of disc havows, some swingle trees a.u.d three milk cams, which wo re •-•-reenti.M to enable him to ca,rrv on hts present share-milking work.