BANKRUPT CATERER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3106, 27 December 1921, Page 6

BANKRUPT CATERER.

MEETING AT SHANNON. An adjourned meeting in the bank nipt estate ol .!. 15.•Sl.roobani. caterer oi Shannon, was held at that place oi December 20. Mr O. E. Deinpsy (De puty Oliicial Assignee) presided, other; present, being Messrs .1. I!. Stroobani -nd Laurence Stroobani :0. i l . Anderson, A. Dcnnie and !\ C. Stuarl (Eublis Works Department), A. Hillier, W. Murdoch, \V. heard and W. li. Gun nine; (Sliannoii Co-op. Store.-;), and i'. C Litchfield (accoimlnnl for Hie Deputy Oliicial Assignee). The meeting was adjourn, d from tin initial meeting he'd in i'alinersluii North, when it was shown Ihal bank inpt, had enteral info an arraiigemeiil with the Public Works Department for LluvKiipply id food on contract lo the cookhouses at Mailgahao camp. Messrs Anderson, Dcnnie and Stuarl gave lengthy evidence, which showed thai the oontraci referred to had linished on May HI, 1020, and ihal bankrupi luul carried on from Ihal dale for a year without any written understanding with the Department. In (he following January bankrupt bad intimated In officers of the Department thai he could not carry on at the contract price in i'iico of increasing costs, and the Deportment bad later advanced him Is a head on the contract price and later 2s (Id a head. It was contended by lb' l representatives of the creditors thai the Government had short-paid bankrupi to the extent, of CBOB lis (5(1 under the agreement to increase Hie price per man supplied, but the officers of ,the Department claimed thai according to bankrupt's own account there was a did'ererence ol oidv CIS7, as I'i'oHl December 21, 1920.

Pinallv it was agreed to write to tin I'nder-Seereiary ol lhe Department, re questing him to send up one () f his in special's to L r o into lhe whole mai ter o accounts. The meeting then adjourned