TEN YEARS’ TROUBLE
MOTORMAN BANKRUPT WILLING TO PAY Difficulties in his finances were experienced by Jacob Dynes Hurfit, a tramway motorman, for 10 years before he filed in bankruptcy. Last October Hurfit called his creditors together and it was agreed that he should pay 10s in the £l. When Hurfit met his creditors yesterday before Mr. V. R. Crowhurst. the deputy official assignee, he agreed to carry out the same arrangement for payment. Hurfit was willing to pay. “We cannot expect him to do any more, in face of his earnings,” Mr. Crowhurst said. To the bankrupt, Mr. Crowhurst said that Hurfit’s attitude in carrying out the payments would be taken into consideration when he applied for his discharge from bankruptcy. Hurfit owed £79 to unsecured creditors. and £ 1.172 to secured creditors. The value of the securities was estimated at £l,lBO and his snssets at £3O. Tbe deficiency was Bankrupt said he got into difficulties originally through illness. Creditors sued him and much of his money tvent ’2ino Ul n s°?. ts ’ , Ten Fears ago he had
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 20
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177TEN YEARS’ TROUBLE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 20
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