A BANKRUPT'S AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14205, 6 February 1915, Page 5

A BANKRUPT'S AFFAIRS.

PURCHASE OF JEWELLERY.

CREDITORS REQUEST FURTHER

INVESTIGATIONS.

(By Telegraph— Press Association.) ROTORUA, Friday. At a meeting of the creditors of J". Dobias, restaurant keeper, the bankrupt was sharply questioned as to the purchase of. jewellery, valued at £42, by his wife at a time Avhen he owed £39; also as to the payment to the jeweller of £15 on that account at a time when ho knew he Avas insolvent. Bankrupt declared that his wife had a private income, but he disclaimed knowledge of the amount or the source of it.

The bankrupt's wife, in evidence, made on aflirmationj said she had no private income. All she had was money saved for a rainy day from moneys occasionally sent to her by her father in England. Sho had given bankrupt a gold watch valued at £22 as a wedding anniversary present, for which bankrupt paid all but £3.

The meeting passed a resolution expressing dissatisfaction at the state of affairs revealed, and that the system of bookkeeping was such as to constitute a breach of the bankruptcy laws, and requesting the Assignee to make further investigations.