SUPREME COURT.
(Before G. L. Greenwood, Registrar/] Te Teira Toheriri and another v. Deputy Official Assignee. On Saturday morning, the Deputy (Official Assignee in Bankruptcy in the estate of W. L. Rees, appeared on a Registrar's summons, to show cause why the petitioning creditors, through their solicitor, Mr McDougall, were not allowed to vote at the first meeting of creditors without having first proved, on the ground that the order of adjudication set out the amount of the debt in respect of which the debtor was adjudicated a bankrupt and reqiikatl m further proof under the 52nd section the Bankruptcy Act. Mr McDougall appeared for jhe petitioning creditors, and Mr Ward for the Official Assignee. Mr Ward argued that no creditor could take part in any meeting without having first proved. 'After hearing both
sides the Registrar made an order that the petition creditors “ either in person or by Mr McDougall " were lawfully entitled tn v* fb» first and all subsequent meetings of creditors, without r any further proof.
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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 55, 29 September 1885, Page 2
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