A DRINKING BOUT
BANKRUPT’S “GOOD TIME
SPENT £4OO IN FIVE DAYS,
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, June 2,
“I was out f-or a good time, drinking and at the races. I went wild and now I can't remember anything. The money is gone, and I don’t know where.” This was the story tti’-d bv Victor Emanuel Charles Ingram, a bankrupt boot-importer, of Ashburton, when lie appeared before Justice Adams in the Supreme Court this morning for examination.
After hearing •bankrupt’s evidence as to liow -he / v pent nearly £4OO in publ'”. and a drinking bout of five, days, bis Honor described it as “an amazing story.”
Tng.ram was adjudged a bankrupt in 1930, and was given an unconditional discharge from bankruptcy in July l q7l On July 15, 1931, he received t'Ve £ lfr from his father's estate and the official Assignee (Mr J. IT. Robertson) said that he did not disclose the. fact to his creditors. Last November, the discharge from bankruptcy was reversed, on the application of the Assignee. Today’s case was an inquiry into tlie expenditure of the money.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1932, Page 6
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