“STAYING OUT OF N.Z.”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 1

“STAYING OUT OF N.Z.”

CHINESE GREENGROCER’S DEBTS

ORDER OF BANKRUPTCY

A Chinese, Kam Kun Chung, who ran a greengrocery business at Onehunga, went back to China two years ago for a holiday and has not since returned to settle up with his creditors. In the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Herd man adjudicated Kam Kun a bankrupt. A petitioning creditor was Harold Lachman Hayman, for whom Mr. Munro appeared. Counsel asserted that when Kam Kun left the Dominion ho had no intention of paying his creditors. Joseph S. Hayman, who held power of attorney from the petitioning creditor to commence proceedings against Kam Ivun, said the debtor owed £ 108 for goods sold to him between February, 1928, and April, 1929. A Chinese named Chee had been carrying, on during Chung’s absence on holiday. A solicitor, John Arthur Holloway, said that Kam Kun had lived in New Zealand for 10 years and had been in business at Onehunga. When h© left for Canton on a holiday two years ago, witness suggested to Kam Kun that he should leave a power of attorney, but debtor announced his intention of returning in a few months, and left the business in charge of Chee. His Honour: Evidently he is keeping out the country?—l think so. “He had no business to go out of New Zealand without settling with his creditors,” said his Honour. The witness added that Kam Kun had an unencumbered property which he had bought for £I,OOO at Onehunga, but which was now worth between £SOO and £6OO. Overdue rates on this property were now being pressed for. Mr. Munro read a letter from Kam Kun written in Canton, in which the debtor said he realised that his debts had reached £I,OOO and that he would probably have to return to New Zealand.