LOAN TO A SOLDIER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 5

LOAN TO A SOLDIER

WIDOWS APPLICATION FOE' j REVIEW. ; ; ' , 1 By Teleurapli—Press Association. i Auckland, October 11. A At the Magistrate's Court to-day the : widow of a soldier applied for the re- I opening of a loan transaction with- •■ Charles Goldstein, trading as the Empire : Loan and Finance Company. On Janu- | ary i last the soldier and his wife nego- ; tiated a loan of .£2O, on which £1 in- ; ; terest was to be charged, the vrhole to '< j be repayable by fourteen monthly instel- i ments of .£2. The sum of 30s. ivas paid j in expenses, the borrower receiving £18 ■ 10s. Mr. Singer, for the defendant, ; stated that his client had received to : date in respect of the loan the sum of : £Is, and in consideration of the fact ; f i that the woman's husband had been kill- \ ed and she was now in distressing circumstances the company thought the '■ matter one in which it should accept the ,£lB already paid in settlement cf the whole amount due under the agreement. The application, therefore, was struck ; out. . ■ ': ;