SUICIDE OF SOLICITOR
A HUGE DEFICIENCY. LAW’S AMAZING LAXITY. .iJilMV’ SYDNEY, Thursday. Claude Roach, trustee 1 iii ! - bankruptcy, presenting his report to a meeting of' creditors in the estate of the late Arthur Davies, solicitor, who committed suicide recently, disclosed a deficiency of approximately £50,000. Davies’s affairs were in a terrible state. No books were kept, not even a trust cash book or ledger. The . only record of.bankrupt’s transactions were cheque butts. _ ' ' >’• i Mr Roach described this bankruptcy as one of the worst of its kind. It was a perfect example of what’ ithe law here allows. It does not even require that a person handling trust funds shall keep proper books.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 August 1933, Page 5
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