WORKMEN'S LIENS—A COMPLAINT.
■ Sir,—Permit me spaco in i your valuable columns to .ventilato my. _ experiences ■.with regard' to' the administration of the -Bankruptcy ; Act by. the Official Assigneo.' I,- in common .with, somo dozen other- 'workmCn, Have: workers'• liens:'On:yarious;cAinteiresi>ed iri;;thoc:Ba-nkruptcyestate': of; H. .Sullivan, builder; and I' ;am informed that ;thb surplus •timber, in this estate was Bold ; for: £180 odd some' three ! montlis ago. The liens have been , lodged some .four months, and although repeated applications have been made to,the Official Assignee, justice has not jet.-been".,done':to. (the'.men.t, ,Tho .books, I understand,, have been handed over to one of the -creditors, and noinformation. .can be given to, ■ the workmen . by, him,' I. venture to think that if tho Bankruptcy Act allows .this state :'of; things to 'exist;' it'only.'goes' to show that either the 'Workers Lien Aot is a farco, or . els o it. is'.boiug..nsed,'in: the interests of somo of the creditors, "and nbt for
the. benefit of the workmen as was intended; I wrote to the Official Assignee in reference to the £180 mentioned above some three .months ago; and 1 received a roply • statin" that the workmen were quite capable of taking,;paro of: .theinsDlyes-v.jvithoufc: my intorference^l. am, etc'.,,;: ') ' G. A. THOMPSON. April 17, 1909. ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 10
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204WORKMEN'S LIENS—A COMPLAINT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 10
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