A WOMAN BANKRUPT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 74

A WOMAN BANKRUPT.

EXTRAVAGANT MODE OF LIVING, AUCKLAND, September 30. “ All we can do is to express our strongest disapproval of the bankrupt’s conduct. Any proceedings taken must inevitably , act as a boomerang on the debtor’s husband, who is highlv 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 the household accounts and trying to reduce the debts. There, being no prospect of a dividend, the meeting was adjourned, with the intimation that any application for bankrupt’s discharge would be opposed.