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FOR OBTAINING CEELIT. AX UNDISCHARGED BAXKRDPT. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Four times adjudged bankrupt, and twice sentenced to imprisonment for breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, John Henry Whitaker, stud-master, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to having obtained more than £2O credit from J. C. Hutton, Ltd., without having first told tiie firm that he was an undischarged bankrupt. Mr Macassey said that Whitaker was adjudged 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 £3S 6s 6d, but- since his “last bankruptcy lie had incurred liabilities totalling £492. 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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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 5
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