“OUT FOR A GOOD TIME”

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 June 1932, Page 9

“OUT FOR A GOOD TIME”

SPENT £4OO IN FIVE DAYS. BANKRUPT’S STORY TO COURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 2. “I was out for a good time and in drinking and at the races I went wild and now I can’t remember anything. The money is gone and I don’t know where.” This Was the story told by Victor Emanuel Charles Ingram, a bankrupt importer, of Ashburton, when he appeared before Mr Justice Adams in the Supremo Court this morning for examination.

After hearing the bankrupt’s evidence as to how he spent nearly £4OO in a gambling and drinking bout of five days, His Honor described it as an amazing story. Ingram was adjudged a bankrupt in 1930 and was given an unconditional discharge in bankruptcy in July, 1931. On July 15, 1931, he received the £4OO from his father’s estate and the assignee said he did not disclose the fact to his creditors. Last November bis discharge from bankruptcy was reversed on the application of the Assignee and to-day’s case was an inquiry into the expenditure of the money.