BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4673, 21 May 1890, Page 4

BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

TO THE EDITOE. Sir, —Your correspondent " Otiake " puta the match to the powder that hia long been ready to explode. No person attempting to fill • Government office should also be engaged in private business. It was bad enough before this c ffictal went into business on bis own account. Tne offices he held wire then multifarious enough, one would have thought, to satisfy any man; bot now it is not to be expected that one on get bankruptcy business properly, energetically, and expeditiously administered, and not at ail surprising that the majority of business men prefer to take almost any offer privately made by debtors rather thin allow estates to drift into the hands of their competitor in boiineaa in Tees-street. If facts and details are waoted. I have them at band; bat I trow not. I have no fear ia saying the cry is a popular one, and that almost every one interested can prove bis own case. Therebavealwaysbeen men amongus whose names I could mention, with cipaci'y for the position and plenty of spire time to devote to it, and who woold have siadiy taken it. I cannot understand why the people who suffer have not entered a vigornos protest in the proper quarter long ago. Trusting that abler hands than mine will take the matter up, I am, etc., CKKDITOn.