IN BANKRUPTCY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 10

IN BANKRUPTCY.

, ESTATE OF C. F. STEVENS. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Charles Frederick Stevens, farm manager, of Kimbolton, which was to have been held yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum, there being only bankrupt and his solicitor present. In his personal statement, bankrupt explained that he was forced to file owing to several of his creditors issuing judgment summonses against him. He was 53 years of age and a married man with a family of II children, four of whom were under 1C years of age. lluring the past 10 years his wife had been in very poor health and had undergone four operations, involving him in considerable expense. It had always been necessary to employ help in the house, as his wife was too ill to bo left alone. Bankrupt’s wife had leased a farm from Mrs P. S. Harrison at a rental of £l9B, but, as the farm had not produced enough to pay the rent, bankrupt had been forced to do labouring work during the slack season. For the past 10 weeks he had been employed by Mr C. F. Johnston, of Kimbolton, earning £3 per week and paying £1 per week for board and lodging. In 1918 he had purchased a motor car but had to return it shortly afterwards. His wife owned a light car, but bankrupt had no assets at all, the furniture, etc., in the home belonging to his wife.