A MAORI'S FAILURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17185, 8 November 1926, Page 2

A MAORI'S FAILURE

A meeting of [lie erodilors of. Ipu Huka, a Maori laborer of! Whakaki, was convened for this morning, Iml none of the creditors Avcro present. The Deputy Official Assignee, Mr. 0. Blackburn, presided, and Mr. H. E. Bright, appeared on behalf of the bankrupt. Under examination by the Assignee, bankrupt stated that he had been working for his father, who helped to keep bankrupt 's family. When lie or his family required clothes and food the. father purchased them. Bankrupt did not got more than £ofl a year from him. Tlig father died hist year,' and bankrupt sold the lior.se and 20 cows left to him under (be will. He had borrowed money from Airs Taylor, saying that when ho sold the cows lie would return the, money. He sold the cows for £2 a head, and the horse for £7. His father left a. block of 249 acres to be divided up amongst the. family, but ho did not know what his own share would be, and he was not; expecting to get any money. The Assignee said he would communicate with the solicitors at Wairoa and suggest that a meeting should be held at Nuhaka. The meeting was therefore adjourned.