BANKRUPT ENGINEER
FAILS TO ATTEND MEETING. CONTEMPT OF COURT. (By Telegrapn.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. “Unless bankrupt submits some satisfactory explanation of his absence from this meeting 1 intend applying to llie Supreme Court to have him dealt with for contempt of Court,” declared the Official Assignee when George Frederick Drury, an engineer, failed to appear at a meeting of creditors this morning. "Bankrupt must be well aware of his duty, and lie lias been notified of (lie meeting.” The meeting of creditors was adjourned until after Easter. The deficiency was illols. Bankrupt in a statement said his financial failure was the result of his contract for a Waimakariri River bridge hav■ncr accented at too low a figure.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17997, 16 April 1930, Page 5
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