CONTEMPT ALLEGED
AN ABSENT BANKRUPT (Per l’ross Association.) CHIMSTL 111 IiCMI, this day. •‘Unless the bankrupt- submits some satisfactory explanation of his absence from this meeting I, intend applying to the Supreme Court to have him dealt with for contempt of court,’' declared the C'llicial Assignee when George Frederick Drury, an engineer, failed to apuear at a meeting of creditors this morning. "The bankrupt, must hi; well aware of Ids duty, and lie lias been notified of tile meeting.” The meeting of creditors was adjourned until after F,aster. Ihe deficiency i-t the estate, was £1615. Bankrupt in his statement said his financial failure was (he result of a contract for the Waimnkariri River bridge having been a erupted at too low a figure.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17235, 15 April 1930, Page 8
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123CONTEMPT ALLEGED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17235, 15 April 1930, Page 8
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