IMPUDENT ROGUE.
SWINDLED HIS CREDITORS. REMITTED MONEY TO GREECE.' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. “He seems to have been deliberately swindling his creditors by sending money to liis' father in Greece. A rogue like that doesn’t deserve any consideration at all, and an impudent rogue at that.” These were the remarks of Mr Justice Sim in respect of Constantine Suumaras, a bankrupt restaurant-keeper. Soumaras who had applied for a discharge •from bankruptcy at a previ-. ous sitting of the court, appeared on this occasion in connection with the application, mado under ‘ section 62 of the Bankruptcy Act, for an order for payment of money towards the discharge of his debts. ■> The bankrupt in-a -statement, claimed that pressure by certain creditors had caused the restaurant business to be s'old at a loss. The bankrupt’s total debts amounted to £llOO, and the judge ordered him to pay £1 a week to the Official Assignee until he had paid a sum sufficient to satisfy all preferential claims and pay a dividend of 5/in the £ to ordinary creditors.
The application for discharge was adjourned until Soumaras compiled with ;hc order.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 December 1926, Page 5
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