BANKRUPTCY COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 3

BANKRUPTCY COURT.

REAPPEARANCE OF SCHAPIRO. * 'ASKS FOR DISCHARGE. The' Chief' Justice (Sir: Robert Stout) presided at a sitting of the - Supreme Court iu Bankruptcy. yesterday morning. John Morris Schapiro, furniture-maker and picture fra'mer, bankrupt, applied for his discharge. Bankrupt recently served a sentence for failing ,to keep , proper' .books of account.. . Schapiro. appeared in person and stated that he. could not get a solicitor. to represent him. (His Honour:' That doesn't matter. The only , point- is that -there is 6ome reference to- 1 a' case of fraudulent preference. Is that settled? , The, Official . Assignee: Yes/ Schapiro had • been proceeded against, under the penal clauses of. the Bankruptcy Act, and had; had. to ;pay the. penalty. j His Honour: Is. there any further, objection to the : discharge? The Official Assignee: There is no furthier. objection- on the part 1 of thd creditors. r think'myself, as I have thought all through, that he is not a fit person'to" be m business. : His HonouT said ;he would reserve judgment and see what their Honours Justices Chapman and Cooper . had done' in' similar cases,. of which, he understood;' there -. were two or.. three. - Bankrupt need : not appear again. ; : •Bankrupt: All' Tight, your. Honour. I was- to .get; a. solicitor, ' but Mr. Levi is. away : from* home. !l" hope your . Honour will consider ..it : favourably,- It' is a great hardship/ and I ; have got a good lesson for the 'future. • I will know what ;to .do With my books. .. His Honour \said the fact that' bankrupt >was a foreigner • had, no doubt; to be considered. He remembered that there were two cases ,of the kind, and he would . ls how to-deal with this one/ TWO DISCHARGES GRANTED. " • r.The " discharge -of Leonard Johnston, stationer, Manners Street, bankrupt, was granted,on the Application : ofMr. A. H. HintoaTsh;; The: Official - Assignee (Mr. A. Simpson) stated: that- none .'of the' creditors .offered'-any objection..■ • Mr D P. ,Biinny . applied. for. the dis-; charge of .Walter'Braithwaifce, auctioneer, of ; Manners . Street, bantoupt. Coiinsel stated that. the: report was a favourable one... Air. Simpson, mentioned that lie had .received -letters: from" three;- of the; credit tore, recommending the discharge. •' His Honour thereupon granted'the applica-; tion. •:-;' CONCERNING PROOFS. ' . .In; the - .bankruptcy of. William George Somerville, of Dannevirke, and formerly of Wellington, l , solicitor,•-'•certain-', creditors' had filed a amotion' to admit' proofs,;but noone ' appeared insupport ■ of the motion. The ~ Official-Assignee asked : His. Honour to strike it out. i-v. ■ '-j,/.',.-' : 'His. :adjourned-tlie"'case, until .the next sitting, . and'.stated that if -the parties'.'did'. not then appear- the case' would ba struck out. - v • - '> The next sitting in- Bankruptcy;, was fixed for Saturday, October 8: : ;