MAORI BANKRUPT.
"ROUGH TIME" FOR A YEAR.
ONLY A FORTNIGHT'S WORK
"A rough time during tho last, 12 months," flurinpj which ho had suffered illness which allowed him to work for only a fortnight of tho year, was held responsible by Waaka Kireka to bo tho causo of his bankruptcy, which he filed nt the Supreme Court, Napier, this week. Bankrupt's schedule showed total debts amounting to £loß—the amount all being owed to unsecured creditors. His assets were nil anil tho deficiency therefore was £IOB. Bankrupt, in his statement, said: "I. am a married man, living at Kairakau on my wife's property of 55 acres of native land. I have about 60 acres in the Taraweru block, from which 1 receive no rents. It is rough country, partly bush, and I have never seen it. I work on my wife's land. She has eight cows and about 50 sheep. I grt out workingstation work, cutting firewood, fencing and shearing. 1 have bad a rough time during the last 12 months, f have been ill. and worked only a fortnight in that lime. I have been in debt to some of my creditors for a long time. 1 cannot earn enough to keep myself and mv family." Kireka was arrested on warrants and compelled to file to get his liberty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20767, 9 January 1931, Page 12
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219MAORI BANKRUPT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20767, 9 January 1931, Page 12
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