FAILED TO DISCLOSE HIS REAL POSITION.
SHOULD NOT HAVE OBTAINED CREDIT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 16. Four times adjudged a bankrupt, and twice sentenced to imprisonment for breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, John Henry Whitaker, studmaster, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to having obtained more than £2O credit from J. C. Hutton, Ltd., without first having told the firm that he was an undischaged bankrupt. Mr Macassey said that Whitaker was adjudged a bankrupt in Auckland in 1912, in Gisborne in 1918. in Napier in 1922, and recently at Wellington. The total amount of credit obtained in the present case was £3B 6s 6d, but since last bankruptcy he incurred liabilities totalling £-192. To meet this he had assets valued at £SO. but these would probably realise only £lO. A term of four months’ imprisonment was imposed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18339, 16 December 1927, Page 12
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