SHAREMILKER’S DEBT.
HEAVY RESPONSIBILITIES COURT ADJOURNS CASE. A middle-aged man named W. Coker appeared at the local Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M. ,to show cause why he had not paid a debt owing to the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co., Ltd., amounting to £35 Is 7d. In examination the debtor, who is a sharemilker on the Hauraki Plains, stated that he was a married man with 15 children, the youngest being five, years of age. Six children were dependent on him. Forty-seven cows were being milked on one-third shares. His milk cheques during the last three months averaged about £22 a month, but the return? w®re steadily decreasing. The debt had been incurred principally in obtaining stores. It was not possible to make an offer at present, as he had had a hard tow to hoe in paying off old scores. The company had told- him not to worry about the amount then owing.
The magistrate said that he would adjourn the case for months to enable defendant to come to some definite arrangement with the judgmen creditor for the payment of the amount.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5081, 28 January 1927, Page 2
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186SHAREMILKER’S DEBT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5081, 28 January 1927, Page 2
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