RECENT BANKRUPTCIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16498, 26 March 1917, Page 7

RECENT BANKRUPTCIES.

' MILL.HAND'S FAILURE. Ip A schedule filed with the official assignee m on Saturday by Arthur Albert Shaw, mill- £;.;. hand, of Hoanga, near Dargaville, who >V was 'recently adjudged bankrupt; shows I V' that he owes to unsecured creditors £83 4s jR ■ 2d. His assets compriso furniture valued H at £15, cash in hand £2 7s 6d. In a P statement the debtor declared that be had H been "married, nine and a-half years, and 1-. from the beginning had got into debt. He sk had had a great deal of sickness in his v/.. family. His son was under the doctor for H two years, and eventually died. As a re- ■■: suit debts accumulated, which he found y' it very difficult to pay off. He had made W' an .attempt to do so. but the increased , /. cost of living made it impossible to reH dues his indebtedness to any extent. He fo'had been recently sued for a small debt, ,*.' . and as his wife was now ill, and he was unable to pay anything in the meantime, v he had beencompelled to file. The first y. meeting of creditors will be -held at the -"' Courthouse, Dargaville, on Wednesday, If ■ March 28, at 11 a.m. Mate Delich, taxicab driver, 54, Durfev. ham Street West, Auckland, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The first meeting of '%','; creditors will be held at the official m ifsigriee's office on Friday, March 30, at ..30 p.m.