BOG AND WEEDS KILL FOURTEEN DAIRY COWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 14

BOG AND WEEDS KILL FOURTEEN DAIRY COWS.

(Special to the “Star.”) GREYMOUTH, July 21. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Albert Richard Cropp, labourer, of Atarau, xvas held to-day. The deficiency was £598 17s Sd, and there xvere no assets. All the creditors were unsecured. Bankrupt, a returned soldier, stated that he found it impossible to make a living out of • farms at Kotuku and Moonlight. During the last season he xvas at Moonlight he lost fourteen head of milking cows through their eating noxious xveeds and being bogged. lie

found that, he was unable to make a a, , ld was getting deeper into ioo-' S i° gave U P the farm in May, 1.,-o tlie Crown talcing possession of the land, stock and implements, and selling them by auction. They did not realise anything like the amount due. 1 lie farm had been vacant since the date -of the sale. He did a good deal of flapping until September, 1925, but made very little. In September he went to , work at Allen and Kinsella’s saxvmill. and remained there for about fix-e months. He had no assets of any sort, and regretted that .he could not make any offer to his creditors. In the absence of a quorum, only txvo creditors being present, the meeting was adjourned sine die.