FAILURE TO KEEP BOOKS
BANKRUPT CULPABLY NEGLIGENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, May 18. James Edward Humble, a motor service proprietor, was proceeded against by the efJiciai assignee for fai\ng -to keep books of accounts for three years .years prior io his bankruptcy. Mr. Nolan, for the assignee, submitted a rej ort from an accountant, who said an examination of the books proved Rumble did not exercise supervision to see that the work detailed by him was recorded in a proper manner. ’ - - Mr. Bain, for the defence, agreed that the cooks had not been properly -kept but Rumble, who war unused to bo«kkecping. had engaged bookkeepers. The magistrate, Mr. Harper, remarked that traders could not escape responsibility for failing to keep proper books by engaging bookkeepers. Rumble was- ? obviously culpably negligent and was ordered to come up for sentence in six months’ time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1930, Page 15
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