FAILURE TO KEEP PROPER BOOKS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11806, 16 December 1912, Page 2

FAILURE TO KEEP PROPER BOOKS.

(Per Press Association.) .. ' ... .Auckland, .Deecmber 15. At the Police Court -yesterday F. M.'Guire, plumber, of Tauranga, pleaded ■guilty vto a charge, df having failed to keeo proper books; prior to his recent bankruptcy. The magistrate ■ (Mr B. C. Cutten) .held., that.failure all, payments in the books was the. Tesult of ignorance. The book-keeping methods of this particular rcase of the Bankniptfey Act came as a haifdship on., working people who had got a little monev together and embarked on business for themselves, and partly from want of knowledge and partly from carelessness they did not know how; their business was going till they filially arrived at the Bankruptcy. Court. That, however, was just what the sections, were intended to protect the mercantile public from. All such cases were liable to do injure to other traders. Defendant had his Worship's sympathy, but in the circumstances the lightest penalty that could be imposed for 14days' hard labor.