A BANKRUPT BUILDER.
ASSIGNEE DISSATISFIED. / ' ') DETAILED STATEMENT WANTED. / TEfEOBATH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] WELLINGTON Monday. "With debts amounting to £2083 to unsecured creditors. aud > .asset's •'estimated at £1430, A. L. McDuff, builder, appeared before -tho official assignee to-day and said that if not pressed by some of the larger creditors he would have been able to pay in full in 12 months. Tho assignee ventured the opinion that if bankrupt had not been pressed lie would now have been owing £SOOO. He / . could mako nothing of McDuft's papers, ho said. In answer to'' questions bankrupt denied that he drank or lost heavily gambling, l>ut suggested that drink did not cost him more than 10s a week, which led to a remark that ho must drink deeply. After sorno uncomplimentary rema'rks about McDuff's, behaviour an adjourn- / ment was made <to enable him. to draw up a detailed statement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19027, 26 May 1925, Page 12
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145A BANKRUPT BUILDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19027, 26 May 1925, Page 12
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