DELUGE OF SUMMONSES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 8

DELUGE OF SUMMONSES

GERMAN INVENTOR AT ;■ PALMERSTON. ,

(By .Telegraphs-Special Correspondent.! ■.••■". ■'', :.■ Palmerston,. September 29. r Mr. H. T. Boelen, a, well-known k. .senior'of'machinery, who has spent tJiG; last' year or so developing a con-, iiection anibng i\ T ow. Zealand flaxmillers, has received no, fewer' than six summonses for. debt in the Inst' few weeks, and is unable to pay, because his income: is locked' up. in Germany. 3'liis was, the substance of a. statement he made' to the Magistrate at the Court to-day when replying < to a claim, for £47 • 18s. .by Young- and Bailey," motor engineers.' He said that this was the first time he had been in Court, 'and now all bis securities, were locked up in Germany as a result of the .war.. At the present timo he had no income, and had been the recipient of no fewer thrin six summonses within tho last low weeks. The sum of £400 had been paid over to his account in Germany in July, but he could not get a penny of it. 'He was born in Cologne-, ■in Germany, but had beeii a British subject for 25 years, and yet tbe-re had been dreadful stories told obout him. He had been accused of being a German spy, and it was said ho had been put on Somes Island, but' io was proud to say that the Government of New.', Zealand, instead of crushing him,, had upheld him. Judgment was entered for- £47 10s. 6d. and costs.