A WOMAN BANKRUPT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21145, 1 October 1930, Page 6

A WOMAN BANKRUPT.

EXTRAVAGANT MODE OF LIVING. ■ i ' HARD-WORKING HUSBAND PENALISE!). (Pw United Press Association.) „ AUCKLAND, September 30. All we can do is t 6 express our strongest disapproval of the bankrupt’s , A ”y Proceedings taken must inevitably act as a boomerang on ..the debtor a husband, who is Jh'ighly esteemed by his employers. At the same time, the woman should not go unpunished;’’ said counsel for a creditor at the meeting of creditors of Mrs May Macdonald, whose deficiency was £743. She had received an allowance of £2O a month from her husband. a seafaring man, and had got heavily in debt with city firms and a loan company to which she had given a mortgage. Her purchases included • a piano, a wireless set, and a carpet. . Her husband ’ was • now paying "tho ‘household accounts and trying to reduce the debts. There hem# no prospect of a dividend, the meeting was adjourned, with the intimation that any application for bankrupts discharge would be opposed.