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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 17

“This case is the *orst of its kind that has ever come under my either in practice or op the Bench,” said" ilr JH. Tmxford, S.M., in the hfagistrate’s Court at Whangarei on Tuesday morning when an Auckland firm made application, six weeks after obtaining judgment, for an order in respect of a debt of £44 Os 6d. The magistrate said the defendant was evidently an honest, hardworking man who, in spite of large family responsibilities, had done his utmost and given everything possible toward discharging his liability. The plaintiff firm had evidently not investigated the matter and did not realise the position or it would not have made this application for an order in which'the creditor’s agent swore that the debtor had had sufficient means to pay the debt after making provision for himself and family since the date of judgment. On the face of things the magistrate considered it was very improper that the application should have been made. To protest the defendant from further worry an order for £3 a month was mad&