HAWERA NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1925, Page 7

HAWERA NEWS.

HAiRDRESSING VENTURE. SENDS IN BANKRUPTCY; DEFICIENCY OF £l<M. . (From Out Own Reporter.) Hawera, Oct, 7, ith unsecured debts totalling only £126 6s Bd, Horace Charles McCabe, lately a hairdresser, of Hawera, was adjudged bankrupt on September 29, and a meeting of his creditors was called, for at the office of the D.O.A. (Mr. 11. S. Sage) at Hawera to-day, but the meeting lapsed for want of a quorum. The only asset in the estate was furniture valued at £2O, so that the total deficiency was £lO6 6s 8d» The unsecured creditors were: James Foy £3O, Levin and Co. £9, Rawlinson and Ifwerson (Auckland) £ll, Maling and Co. (Christchurch) £lO 14s 6d, H. E. Partridge and Co. £3 9s, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. (Wellington) £1 ss, Admore and Mason (Wellington) £3 10s, J. and J. Auld £3 15s, Miss H. Stewart £1 12s Gd, C. Murch £4 3s, McGruer, Bone and Co. £lO 3s 9d, Electric Light Co. £7 Us, A. J. Geary £5 4s, E. Taylor £1 Ids, T. G. Liddington £1 16s, Hallcnstein. Bros. £1 8s 11 d, O’Dea. and Bavlev £3 16s, E. O’Reilly £1 19s, Dr. McGhie £ll Is, W, R. Shaw £3 2s_, total £l2O 6s Bd. f ’l commenced business in Hawera about 1917 as a hairdresser,” said McCabe in his personal statement. e ‘l had no capital, but borrowed money and gave a bill of sale over everything. The business was taken from me under the bill of sale in £ 1922, as I had not been able to make it pay. A portion of my present debts are the remains of the business. Since giving up I have been working on wages and- paying off what I could of back debts, having paid off about £7O since giving up the business I have now, however, had judgment summonses taken against me for various debts, and as I am earning £5 5s a week and have a wife and family of four children to support, I cannot do

anything towards meeting these obligations. 1 have therefore been forced io file my petition.”

HAWERA FIRE BRIGADE. COUPLING COMPETITION, Keen interest was taken by a large gathering this afternoon in the Hawera fire brigadesmen annual coupling competition for the Osborne Cup and a gold medal presented by Mrs. A. Morrison for the first prize, a gold medal presented by Mr. E. A. Pacey for the second prize, and a trophy presented by Miss <D. Carrigan for the third prize. The results were:—■ ; Deputy-Superintendent P. Grace, 39see., penalty Hee., time 40see, 7 Fireman J. Zinsli, 43 2-ssec., no penalty ’2 Foreman H. Hurley, 48sec., penalty J see., time 49sec 3. Fireman E. Harr, 51 4-ssec, no penalty .. . .r . 4 Eleven members competed, the times ranging up to 70 2-ssce, The event was won last year by Deputy-Superintendent G race, THE BANDS’ CARNIVAL. The half-holiday in Hawera was brightened to-day by one of the most amusing events of the bands’ carnival—the. fancy-dress hockey match between the Mack Sennett and Mary Pickford teams, 'When the procession was due to leave the post office a large crowd had gathered in the street/ and the procession to the showgrounds was extremely ludicrous. A car load of people in fancy dress was followed by the referee, a tall, scholarly parson wheeling the enormous Fox Film Cup, the trophy in dispute, on a wheelbarrow. The ladies’ jazz band and a hand-cart load of Mack Sennett beauties/drawn by masquerading hockey stars, brought up the rear. The match xvas a humorous one, and the actual issue is still being argued by the teams. On Friday night the; Scottish Society will give another of their popular concerts in the Eltham Town Hall, and a number of other fixtures in various parts of the province have been artanged. The country committee has decided to conduct a shop day in Hawera on Saturday xveek in aid. of the country candidate, Miss Vera Beech. Tonight the sports committee held a very successful fancy-dress aud masquerade dance in the Savoy.