LABOURER IN BANKRUPTCY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 16

LABOURER IN BANKRUPTCY

MAX WITHOUT ASSET OAVES £233. Employed a<s a casual labourer on the roads and shearing, Kereni Wetere, Mokau, ran up sundry accounts amounting to £233 15s 5d with tradespeople of ,the Mokau and Waitara districts. Being without assets Wetere was forced to file. A meeting of his creditors was called by the D.O.A. (Mr. J. S. S. Medley) at New Plymouth yesterday afternoon, but was adjourned sine die for the want of a quorum. Unsecured creditors included: S. Whitehead (Mokau), £l5 8s 9d; E. Reynolds (Waitara), £lO 9s 4d; Chas. Dunbar (Urenui), £B4; H. L. Northern and Co. (Mokau), £36 19s sd; Taranaki Hospital Board. £59 3s. Wetere stated he was 29 years of age and had two adopted children. He was doing casual shearing work. The court had ordered him to pay a debt of £3 17s 6d out of his wages, and bankruptcy had not relieved him of this debt. He did., hot drink very much and he did not gamble. His mother had given him £lOO about five years ago to pay a number of accounts. He had been working as a casual labourer on the roads at Mokau until the beginning of 1928. After a period of unemployment he worked at the Waitara freezing works. His wife had died in August, 1928, He went back to Mokau and worked on the bridge. He had been unable to pay a previous judgment sum-, tnons and on a further judgment summons he was forced to file.