LABOURER BANKRUPT.
HARDSHIP RECOGNISED.. (Sy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Debts totalling £711 and assets valued at £077, were shown on the schedule of John Law, a labourer, a meeting of whose creditors was held to-day. The Government valuation of the pro perty set down as being worth £G75 was stated by a creditor to be £400. Bankrupt said that on his return from the war he started as a baker's assistant,: and then went into a wood-carting business, and took newspaper contracts.! His wife's sickness cost him a lot, and he had also to support three children. He was at present earning £5 5/ in a bakery.
One creditor expressed the opinion, ™ a u ßS '?"? e a S ree d, that it was a .i, hardship. The meeting was adjourned to enable the value of his property to be ascertained.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 8
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141LABOURER BANKRUPT. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 8
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