THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT.
' fß* TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Donedin, Friday. At the Chamber of Commerce Mr. G. Bell, the ChainnaD, in the course of a lengthy speech, referring to the new Bankruptcy Act, ..said :—"One very extraordinary phase of its operations seems to favour fraud, and add to the expense rather than to reduce it. It seems that this. Act has omitted to make provision - for conferring on the Official Assignee the right to examine a debtor excepts through, a solicitor. I have a sort of hereditary reverence for the profession, and can quite understand the desire for putting their fingens into every dirty pie; but it seems to me that a trained business-man,' who is thoroughly ; acquainted with the debtor's doings .and misdoings, and technically acquainted with .business accounts, is the fitter man to investigate a debtor's affairs
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 5
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