ELTHAM BANKRUPTCY

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1932, Page 8

ELTHAM BANKRUPTCY

FAILURE DUE TO SICKNESS. A deficiency of £62 5s 3d is shown in the "bankrupt estate of Maurice Lyon Chubb, Eltham, describing himself as a timber contractor. A meeting of creditors to have been held before Mr. M. Niccol, acting-official assignee, at Hawera yesterday lapsed for want of a quorum. Unsecured creditors are owed £BO 5s 3d and assets amount to £lB. The principal unsecured creditors are: W. Elmelie (Matamata), £2O Is 3d; C. A. Belcher (Eltham), £l4; Farmers’ Auctioneering Company Limited (Hamilton), £l2 8s 6d; J. Laurenson (Matamata), £lO 10s. He was employed, bankrupt stated, as a farm labourer at Matamata, but he had an illness and an accident in 1929. which incapacitated him for some months. Then his wife and child were ill and he had to give up farm work. ■He had a three months’ job and then had a further accident. After intermittent work until August, 1931, he took a piecework job with the Egmont Box Company, since when his gross earnings had been £207 lie sd. His failure was due to loss of working time through sickness and accident, and the illness of this wife and family.

SHOOTING AND FISHING SPORT.

. STRATFORD SOCIETY MEETS. The council of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society met last night, Mr. A. E. Hunter presiding. It was reported that the fish had been transferred to the ponds and were doing well. According to the way the hen pheasants were laying it was anticipated that over 100 birds would be hatched this season.

The secretary stated that Mr. J. C. Moore, Kohuratahi, was recommended as a ranger and that his warrant was issued. I A deputation will wait on the Stratford Borough Council to see that the interests of the society are protected in case of leakage from, the bulk petrol tanks it is proposed "to erect on the ■bank of the Pate a River at Stratford. CENTRAL DIVISION BOWLING. TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW. Teams for to-morrow’s central division bowling matches include the following:— Avon;—-No. ,1 to play No. 2 at Avon: Coleman, Newland, Adams, McDonald (s); Hughson, Sutaimers, Soundy, Lonsdale («)’; Mclnnes, Carter, Power, Betts (a); Brown, Guthrie, Robinson, F. Weston (s); Finnerty. Lawrence, Mills, Billman (s); Mantle, ‘Brownlee, White, North (s). No. 2 team: Pennington, Thomas, Armstrong, Hardy Jones (»); Casey, Mills, Walker, J. Weston (s); Wright, Hill, Boundy, Collingwood (s); Stoneman, Pettigrew, Cook, Ansley (s); Boreland, Sole, Von Sturmer, C. Hill (a); Waldock, Hardgraves, Moss, Dickinson (s). Stratford: —No. I to play Tariki at Tariki: Stokes, E. Harris, Side'll, Allen (s); Douglas, Rudkin, Pope, ■'Sanderson (s). No. 2 to play Inglewood at Inglewood: Wilson, Whitworth, Clark, Ames® (s); Marsh, Evans, Higgs, Ewing (s); Butchart, Pople, Williams, Harris (s); Lawson, Pellett, Fastier, Lawson (s); Summerfield, Frankflyn, Bake, McDonald (s); Pridham, Burgess, Smart,' Hillock (s). Inglewood:—Against Stratford at Inglewood: Neumann, 0. Spurdie, Curtis, Cottier (s); Martin, H. Drake, Mason, Wilson (s); Henderson, Somerton, Mulholland, Maetzig (s); Farquhar, Egarr, H. Codd, McLaggan (s); Lamb, Dansie, Smith, F. Spurdie (s); Johnston, A. Codd, Ashton, E. Lovell (s). ’ AVON OTARS RETAINED. A taa'tch for the Avon stars was played on the’ Stratford green last week-end, the Stratford Club rink, T. T. Skqglund, Marsh, S. Ewing, Harris (s), retaining them against the challengers from the Eltham club, Hilmer, Jones, Brown, Clemow (sj, by 40 to 10.

MIDHIRST NEWS.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Bohniface has returned from a visit- to the Palmerston North show.

Mr. W. Platt, of the Midhirst Dairy Cota.pany, who sat for his enginedriver’s certificate at New Plymouth recently, was successful. Miss Joyce Wildon is on a holiday visit to relatives at Hawera. Miss M. Kovaleski has returned from Wellington. Mr. Baskin has returned home from a private hospital. < A party of the Midhirst ladies made the journey to the opening of the mew railway and a most enjoyable day was spent. They included Mesdames Guthrie, Shiith, G. Andersen, P. Jones, D. Clark (Stratford), Platt and A. Graham, Misses Wardell, Anderson and N. Graham. GENERAL ITEMS. The firing of a belated bonfire in Antonio Street, Stratford, drew a large crowd last night but little excitement was forthcoming. Someone gave the alarm, the fire bells pealed and the brigade arrived only to return in some 'degree disappointed that the fire was •nowhere near a house.

The statement that £5O or £6O of borough money “went up in smoke” at (the fireworks display at Stratford on (Monday night was circulated in Stratford yesterday, but it had no basis in fact as the money used to purchase fireworks was voluntarily subscribed, Chiefly by the business people.

i Discussion on pheasants at the meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society last night led to the recounting of a story ’by a member. Prior to last season two sportsmen bought £1 worth of artichoke seed and gave it to a farmer to sow. The arrangement was that the farmer should have the artichokes for his pigs while the sportsmen were to have the" right to shoot on his property. Pheasants are fond of artichokes and the reciprocal idea seemed a good one. It was for the farmer. He got the artichokes but not one pheasant patronised the patch.