TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20005, 23 November 1927, Page 3

TAIHAPE

BANKRUPTCY MEETING [ Special " Chronicle ’* Service ] A meeting of creditors in the bankruptcy estate of Edith May Earl of Kanoi was held in the office of the Deputy Official Assignee (Mr CMasters) on Monday. Bankrupt’s schedule showed that her liabilities amounted to £154 Is while her assets were nil. In a statement bankrupt said she had two children to support and was housekeeping at Karioi at £1 a week. She haL; done her best to pay her creditors and during the last two years the amount of her liabilities had been considerably reduced. Owing to the fact that one creditor had been pressing for payment she had been forced to file. She intended to pay all her creditors as soon as she could earn the money. Two years ago she had} been doing all right and was running a cook-house for the Napier Timber Coy. If the company had not closed down for the winter she thought she could have managea to pay ail her debts. She had a daughter in the Taihape Hospital for sometime past and she herself was at present under a doctor’s orders. An Unprofitable Farm Mrs E. E. Brunskill (Hihitahi) who was recently adjudged banKrupt, faced her creditors at a meeting held in the office of the Deputy Official Assignee (Mr C. Masters) on Monday. Bankrupt's statement showed that she owed £B3 to ordinary creditors and £5OOO to secured creditors. She stated that she used to have a farm at Hihitahi but had left it last August as it was impossible to make it pay and Messrs Bryant and Hale had taken possession. Mr Bryant requested an adjournment of the meeting to allow more complete statements to be prepared by himself and bankrupt. The Deputy Official Assignee said that both statements should be rendered to him in detail and he would then decide whether it was necessary to call a further meeting. PERSONAL The Town Clerk (Mr C. Dillingworth) suddenly became ill on Monday afternoon and was admitted to hospital the same day. KING’S THEATRE. Those two excellent comediennes Louise Farenda and Jacqueline Logan — appear to-night at the King’s Theatre in the comedy “Footloose Widows.” It is a racy comedy of social errors amid the splendours and allurements of 'he gay show places of sunlit Florida. “Mons.” To-morrow afternoon and night the story in picture will be shown of this preat retreat. Gunner Jenkins, who fired the first shot for the British forces will personally appear at both sessions.