BANKRUPT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 6

BANKRUPT.

A meeting, of creditors. : in the bankrupt estate Tif.- Curl- lierfla'rd i\laxStrano<l. .d'ra.igii ifpiaa, of 75, Road, <iw . isr,g4toi«*, was; convened ..by the Official ' this atter'noop, bu«i as tad.y one creditor atrended t'he meettqg jvas-adjourned sine die. ' The Oiiiciaj Assignee, Mr TVD. Kendal!. , in - adjourning the ; meetings .iiKi tba.t .be"had received, & letter from -ite trustee? of the late Dr. Terras Bell, -expressing their sympathy with' Mr Stra.;fteel in his trouble and entirely' waipipg iheir claim of £3 3s against the estate. Several other creditors, he understood, bad expressed their : sympathy ..to - llr Stranbel i.n similar terms. Bankrupt attributed his present eoudit;fi[i and uji fortune to" his eyesight iailing some three months ago. The statement of liabilities showed that, the aiuount owing to unsefrwred creditors was £l3l 19s (id. t There were no assets whatever ana' no* se-. cured creditors. Tbo principal unsecured creditors were New Zealand Farmers' '.Co-operative £35, St. Albany Money .Club ".£32, E. Papprill, care Papprill a,nd . Cpntan., solicitors, £ls, and A. and F. Kerr, Suinner, butchers. £l.O 13s.' . Bankrupt said, that since filing his petition his wife had .received offers to assist her in starting in business. It' would be only in a small way aijd the prospects would' not be very* big at first, but if the project wa»" successful it might he able to retrieve his oos'ti'on a little. He was anxious to (To his best and- believed that if .h ' went into the country for a while his might improve a little. At present it was so poor that he could not do any work, everything being a blurr to; him, but-he had not given 'up hope yet. ■ ' ■■■