BANKRUPT SOLICITORS.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17840, 12 October 1929, Page 9

BANKRUPT SOLICITORS.

WINDING-UP ESTATES. TENDERS FOR DOCUMENTS. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The winding-up of the estates of two bankrupt solicitors, one of whom was sentenced to a term of imprisonment and the other of whom escaped from the country, is presenting some special problems to the Official Assignee. In the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr V. N. Hubble, on behalf of the

Assignee, sought the assistance of Mr .Justice Smith in disposing of the documents left in tiio estates of John Henry Victor Mansell and IT. R. Malcolm. Tile method proposed by Mr Hubble was to call for tenders by advertisement for the purchase by solicitors of the documents on conditions to be approved by the Court. The actual sale would also require to be approved by the Court. Mr Hubble said that Mansell and Malcolm were two solicitors practising in Auckland, both of whom went bankrupt about two years ago. In both cases the Official Assignee was now almost ready to make the final distribution. After ail efforts had been made to trace the owners of the documents left in these estates there was

still a considerable residue unclaimed. A number of them might never be claimed. Mr Hubble agreed to His Honour’s proposal to refer the matter to the council of the Law Society.