CAPE FLIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22928, 5 January 1938, Page 8

CAPE FLIGHT

EXPENSES OF £1177 ill MRS. KIRBY GREEN'S PROFItM BANKRUPTCY DISCHARGE'^M [FBOM OUR ows: LONDON, Dec. 18 Mrs. Olive Kirby Green, who, with - • I Fl.ving-Officer A. E. Clouston, made •; I the record return flight to Capetown *1 recently, was granted her from bankruptcy at Windsor . thi»l||i week. She was described as an hotel I proprietress, formerly of the Braj" Court Hotel, Windsor Road, She told Judge Digbv Cotes PreedySffl that her total expenses for the Capt-SJ flight, including hire, insurance and -j fuel, were £1176 19s 6d.*jJier receipts I from the flight were £1325 Is 9d. - " | The Official Receiver, Mr. j. Bruce /ed Simmons, said the statement of »iffaisl||S showed liabilities of £4499. 'Mrs. Kirby Green was the daughter of |lf§ former owner of the Bray Court Hotel and from 1929 to 1934 she acted as >' * manageress, receiving a salary of £3 a week, with free accommodation. clothes and a car. After her father's V death she continued to manage the jp'f hotel for the trustees and received £4 VJI a week. She was assisted by her husband, but in 1935 she obtained decree for the dissolution of her marriage. Loans for Hotel Under her father's will Mrs. Kirby Green was entitled to a share of th# - income of the residuary estate. Sho had stated that she had only received an advance of £3O. In May, 1934; she became tenant of the hotel at.a!f| rent of £3OO a year, with rates off|g £l5O. She raised three loans. £4OO " from the bank and two of £SOO from ss• an insurance company on the security of two life policies for £750. The hotel was not licensed. Airs. '/< Kirkv Green was the proprietress of the Bray Court Club, which occupied ftwo rooms at the hotel and had membership of 500. At her public exam- ll ination she sard that she made a profit during the summer and lost it in tho f| winter. _ During the last year of trading she fg estimated her losses at £1344. When W asked how much she and her husband had drawn from" the business for ordinary living expenses a year, she replied: pf "I should think it might be £1000." f| Theatrical Engagements At the end of 1935, continued the Ofßcial Receiver, she became tenant of ; ' premises at South Brnton Mews, London, to run a club, and at the of the receiving order she was secre- ' tary at a salary of £lO a week., " " 1 After telling the Judge of her flight , finances, Mrs. Kirby Green said she;jf| had now secured theatrical engagements, but she had to buy a large mini- i|; ber of clothes. She had completed fier.jp wardrobe, and there was something less than £l5O left. She was very Anxious < to pay her creditors. She could not re- l f, ceive any benefits from her father'* v | estate until she had obtained her discharge. Consent to Judgment . "■ "I am willing to consent to a judgr ment for £SOO against me if I can only have my discharge," she added, ""it is holding up my career, and I will sign any documents you like.'' The Judge said that while he admired her for her daring feat, he had to consider the interests of her creditors. Mr. Alan Stuchbury opposed the application for a firm of wine and spirit merchants. ; The Judge, granting the discharge on consent to a judgment of £SOO, Mid ; that at the end of 12 months, Mrs. * Kirby Green must furnisji a financial statement of her affairs to the Official Receiver. If he thought fit. he could | then bring the matter before the Court ..3 again. v^::," '/Sffl