BANKRUPT LABOURER

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1930, Page 2

BANKRUPT LABOURER

DIFFICULTY IN FINDING WORK. DEFICIENCY OF £lOB SHOWN. Loss of work and war injuries were stated by John Moffett, labourer, of Midhirst, as the cause of his deficiency of £lOB 18s, shown at the office of the D.O.A. '(Mr. J. S. S. Medley) at New Plymouth yesterday. No creditors attended ’and the meeting was, adjourned sine die. Apart from his pension of £1 a week, bankrupt said he had no prospects and could make no oficr to his creditors.. . He had been unemployed at various times since 1926, stated Moffett. He had beeft working for farmers since then, but every autumn he had been put off because of the milk supply dropping Relief work was secured on the mountain, but through changeable weather five months was lost in the 12 months spent there. ■Sickness also caused broken tune, bankrupt suffering from influenza and war injuries, the latter leaving one arm practically useless. He was ordered into the Wangjuiui hospital on account of the arm and, when leaving after a few wepks, found that another man had been employed in his stead. The debts, all to unsecured creditors, totalled £l3B 18s Id, and the assets (furniture) £3O, The creditors were: D Trewhitt (Stratford) £3, Mrs. Dymond (Hawera) £7 10s, W. G. Simpeon (Hawera) £3 3s, Dr. W. F. Buist (Hawera) £4 4s, Davis (New Plymouth) £2 8s 6d, C. Lamplough (Stratford) 116 4d, Public Hospital (Hawera) £3l Is, J. Northcott (Opunake) £B, -j Orr (Stratford' £8 3s Bd, Weeton (Stratford) £1 17s 6d, G. Lithgow (Midhirst) 14s lid, T. F. Richardson (Stratford)- 17s 3d, Dr J. S. Church (New Plymouth) £B. 18s 6d, B. Joyce (Stratford) £5 16s, Dr. Steven (Stratford) £4 14s 6d, Trotter (Stratford) £3 Is, Arthur and Co. (Hawera) £4 15s, J. J. Auld (New Plymouth) £lO 146, Dr. Young (Hawera) £4 4s, T. Smith (Stratford) 176 Sd, R. P. •Morrissey (Hawera) £9 .106, A. McKeown (Piha'ma) £l3 Bs, W. A. Brown (Stratford) 126 9d. Crose-examined, bankrupt said he was a married man. He was unable to get work at Midhirst. He could not get assistance from the R.S.A.. but he received a pension ot £1 a week.