IMPRISONMENT FOR SMALL DEBTS.
PROPOSED LEGISLATION. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 3. Tho Hon. J. A. Milar, speaking at Waihi, said that he would introduce into Parliament next session a bill to do away with imprisonment for small debts when a man was honestly trying lo meet his liabilities. Tho bill would provide that a man who had fallen behind in payments could oall his creditors together before the Official Assignee and agree to pay off so much weekly, (he payments to be divided among the creditors pro rata, and while they wore maintained a protection order, issued by Ihc assignee, would prevent tho debtor being sued in the Magistrate's Court for the recovery of email debts. The honest man would thus be protected, and the man who was attempting to evade his liabilities would have no protection whatever.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13894, 4 May 1907, Page 10
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140IMPRISONMENT FOR SMALL DEBTS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13894, 4 May 1907, Page 10
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