CHINESE BANKRUPT
ALLEGATION OF FRAUD LIVED LIKE MANDARIN (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. At a meeting of creditors in the estate of William Quail, a Chinese storekeeper, the bankrupt’s assets were shown at £l2 and the amount owing to unsecured creditors at £4OO, after being in business for three months. The assignee remarked that it. was strange that a man should get so much credit in such a short time. One creditor’s counsel said the bankrupt represented himself as an Oxford man and a member of a London club. He said lie had 13 shops in the North Island, and produced references which, however, belonged to his father. The bankrupt told a creditor that his father was a retired merchant, residing in Auckland, and had sent him to Duiledin to purchase goods. He had stayed atari hotel with a woman and child, and a nurse, and came to dinner in great style, like a mandarin. _ A resolution was passed that the assignee should communicate with the Crown Prosecutor with a view to an investigation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 8
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