BANKRUPTCY EXAMINATION
PRESS EXCLUDED. AUCKLAND. September 7. Investigation into the affairs of A. R. M'Ncii and Co. (Ltd.), merchants, was continued in the Sum-erne Court building yesterday, the registrar (Mr A. Stubbs) presiding. Mr Sehvyn Mays, who represented tho petitioning creditors, appeared before Mr Justice Adams, and requested that, in the interests of commercial morality, full publicity should be granted the statements of witnesses. His Honor said if was an almost universal practice that such, examinations as these should be held in private. In the English courts he knew of no order for publicity being made except where fraud was alleged. This inquiry was not in the nature of an open court, and his Honor wished to safeguard the power and hity of the court to have inquiries conducted to determine the details of a case. If counsel made application based on proper affidavits that a good prima facie case of fraud had been made out. and that in the interests of (he public an order for publicity should be made, his Honor would consider the facts. Meantime the press reporters are excluded.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3522, 13 September 1921, Page 7
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183BANKRUPTCY EXAMINATION Otago Witness, Issue 3522, 13 September 1921, Page 7
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