THE PLIGHTED WORD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 11

THE PLIGHTED WORD.

PRIME MINISTER’S EXAMPLE. The value which is attached in business circles to integrity was stressed at proceedings in bankruptcy at Wellington. Mr C. Munro said that business people were never hard upon clients who got into debt through misfortune. What they did resent was broken promises. What was wanted in business were men of '..tho character of tho lato Prime Minister. No finer compliment had. ever been paid any man than that accorded to the late Mr Massey by Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of tho Labour Party: “He never broke his word.”

Mr W. B. Brown, solicitor for the bankrupt, said that the trouble in the present instance had been caused hy the bankrupt getting into financial difficulties. It was usually found that when men got into debt they prevaricated with the object of gaining time in which to right themselves. Thackeray, in “Vanity Fair,” had stressed this human failing. It was a long time since “Vanity Fair” had been written, and it only went to show that human nature had changed very little since. Mr Munro said it was not cash which business firms wanted. They valued more highly clients whose word they knew was their bond.