ANOTHER BROKER GONE BUNG.

NZ Truth, Issue 71, 27 October 1906, Page 7

ANOTHER BROKER GONE BUNG.

■About 12 months ago one of . .tfaijsj youngest and most popular brokers '-itoi'-f; Melbourne carried .on high jinks on .. ■ ttwK stock market — Robert Officer by name ; h^» went up with the rocket and came down,'rii with the stick. He got dabbling m aIS| sorts of. shares and gee-pees. Lack of /Ji experience brought about what was <&&ti\ tain to foljow. He got beyond ht%Jt ddpth, and the great strain which w.oui^ have driven patriarchs to alcohol turned^ 1 the brain, and he wbb found aomawheira^ m the' bush totally unable to take : carj^ bf^ himself. 'Friends took him' In handi^ and \ after a time bis . affairs ■sverei ftxedpS up, and he became clothed and . :' .^.;5 \IN HIS BIGHT MIND. ;f| The Whirligig of such a business has.t;;rn-i| ed greater minds, but when it becomes airj contest between them and the layers' oft| odds,; no wonder tney go down. SeUirt^ii! short was the great trouble. The LouuotkS system of balancing might hnve savedi^ him, but when the crash came and 4»ii»' v A couldn't pay he didn't bolt. It is suicth that he openly told his creditors he Ava^J done, and cquldn't pay m full, but th&t*| he'd, part, up to the last farthinp }ie baU^tf Well no one could do more, and he s'iooWf'^ the • dust of shaJo dealing from off hi*^ feet. It was rumored at tbe» Victoria^* Club that he had a double bet m Syd^j ney--£IOOO to £35— but before the ravads was run he went to the bookie and toliKf him he couldn't part up, and the bewj was scratched.- What luck the gee-getfj book and penciller had against the aharafis book and penciller— the double carao off #L