MEETING OF CREDITORS.
——|r A meeting of grcditors of Joseph Sykes, carpenter, wfis held at the Courthouse yesterday morning. Present : Messrs R A Adams, W Brown, R Slattery, G D Hamertou. The latter gentleman was voted to the Chair. The statement of assets and liabilities was read. Assets—Tools ,and wearing apparel, £lO. Liabilities—R A Adams £2 Is lOd,
J A McKenna £4 Os lid, T North £6 3s 93, M Doßanks £1 3s Id, W Brown £3 18s sd, York and Corn foot £5 19s 2d, S Taplin £5, S Barraclouph £6 10a, B Slattery £1 10s, R W Whittem £5, Borlase and Barnicoat £2, McCarty and Hunger 15s, E 0 Horner £2 3s, Lundberg and Co 19s, W Dale 3s 3s, Mahoney and Co £lO, W Odgers £6. Total £66 7s 6d. In reply to questions, debtor said that the debts duo were long-standing ones. He had not been in regular work, and during the last four months he had done his best to work off his ‘ He had lost £33 odd by Dickson’s job, and had had to pay £5 expenses besides. Out of the last £ls received from Dickson he had paid £l2 away in sums of £2 to various creditors. He had, work to go to at Nelson. Out of the last six months he had been employed three; so that bis average earnings were 5s per day, while his household expanses were a little more. About two years ago he owed £BO, and he had worked that down to £56. He had failed in Wellington before he came here, through being let in for £192 on a contract with R J Duncan. Previous to this he he had compromised with his creditors in Invercargill, giving them 17s 6d in the £. On that occasion he lost £3OO through a building blowing down. The meeting declined to. appoint a trustee, and it was left with the Chairman to call the creditors together, if necessary.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1059, 13 July 1883, Page 2
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327MEETING OF CREDITORS. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1059, 13 July 1883, Page 2
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