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BIG LEEWAY

A BANKRUPT’S OFFER'. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, Friday. At a meeting of creditors to-day in the estate of Robert Charles Ferguson, a salesman, the statement showed £l,llO owing to unsecured creditors with assets of £237. Bankrupt, in his sworn, statement, said that ho shared in his mother’s estate of £(3000 on her death, but she requested hint to look after the youngest brother, aged 18. He obtained him employment on a farm and, in 1922, the two of thorn .purchased a farm in Waitoa. The brother was left to look after it, but the venture proved unprofitable, and bankrupt proceeded to show- that it. had been a. burden round his neck; also that he had difficulties in regard to his own employment. He undertook to inform the Official Assignee, as soon as ho got a position, to make an offer to pay as much as he could afford to his creditors. The meeting was adjourned., for a month, the Assignee stating that he would then report as to the position.

The/New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association has; forwarded a request to the South African Association that the team which is. to visit Australia next summer should extend its tour to the Dominion. So far, no reply has been received, but it is

believed that the question is to be considered at the next meeting of the South African Association, to be /held in Johannesburg soon. It is reported that there is a very good .chance that the request will be complied with.

A motor car at Birmingham was. hit by a motor-lorry which had cannoned off a handcart, and which then crashed into a second car, then into a third ear, which it forced into a fourth car which, in turn, demolished a lamp in the street. At Goole a bus, which had pulled up beside two loijries in collision, was run into by a third lorry while a fourth dropped into a ditch and a motor car demolished its* radiator.

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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1929, Page 14

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BIG LEEWAY Northern Advocate, 16 March 1929, Page 14

BIG LEEWAY Northern Advocate, 16 March 1929, Page 14