LABOURER BANKRUPT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 11

LABOURER BANKRUPT.

SMALL AMOUNT INVOLVED.

OFFER FROM WIFE SOUGHT.

"These debts are practically your wife's and I think she should make some offer to creditors/' said the deputy-official assignee, Mr. V. R. CrowhUrst, to the bankrupt at tho conclusion of a meeting of creditors in the estate of John Houston, boilermaker, of Auckland, yesterday. Bankrupt's schedule showed debts to unsecured creditors amounting to £44 2s Id, and there wero no assets.

in a written statement bankrupt said that from September, 1928, lift was employed as a labourer at a wage of £4 23. Ho was solvent at that time. About March, 1929, he obtained employment as ;t storcman at £4 12s 6d. He had a wife and one child. A summori3 had been issued in respect of a debt of £25 9s. With money found by his wife, he bought two cows and ran a small milk run, which brought in about £2 23 a week. Later his wife became ill and could not carry on the work. She now had a fancy goods shop at Eden Terrace, where t hoy lived. Business was not good and his wages were all required to maintain tho hcjmc. The proceeds of the sale of the cows, amounting to £39, had 1 been given to his wife, who owned tho animals. His daughter was 15 years of_ age, and earned about 10s a week teaching music. He could make no offer to creditors. In answer to a creditor bankrupt said his wife had had a car, but she had returned it as she could not afford to keep it. Mr. Orowhurst said he would adjourn the matter for a month, and in the meantime bankrupt must see what offer his wife could make.