IN BANKRUPTCY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3555, 28 October 1926, Page 1

IN BANKRUPTCY.

LOCAL FLAX-HAND FILES. A petition in bankruptcy has been tiled by John Andrew Roy Andresen, engine-driver, of Foxton. His papers show the following list of unsecured creditors: —T. Rowley (Wellington) £125 7/4; Palmerston North Hospital Board £29 13/-; R, N. Speirs (Foxton) £6 18/4; Diamond ahd Hart (Wellington) £3 10s, A. Oliver (Foxton) £4 3/8, S. E. Cowley (Foxton)|ls/-, and Cooper, Rapley and Rutherfurd (Palmerston North) £4B 5/-. Bankrupt’s statement, inter alia is as,follows: — In' July, 1912, Mrs Andresen had a severe illness for nine months, for seven weeks of which she was in the Palmerston N. Hospital. This illness had cost bankrupt all the money he had saved as Mrs Andresen had been receiving medical attention for three months prior-to entering the hospital. On leaving the latter institution, Mi’s Andresen had been ordered by her doctor to take a holiday, and on her return,) bankrupt had been obliged to engage help in the house. In July, 1923, both bankrupt and his wife has suffered from the ’flu, again necessitating medical attention, and further aid in the house, and in July, 1924, Mrs Andresen had again' been compelled to go into hospital to receive attention to her jaw bone, which had been badly broken while receiving dental attention. In another seven months, Mrs Andresen had once more been compelled to enter the hospital to receive further ' attention to her jaw' bone and had been under the doctor’s orders until the end of October last. In September, 1925, bankrupt had taken action against the dentist} who allegedly had been responsible for Mrs Andresen,’s dental condition, but, bankrupt had lost the case, and the costs, amounting to £125 7/4, had been put against him. His inability to pay this amount had placed bankrupt in his present position. Bankrupt was paying as board £3 a week for Mrs Andresen and himself, and was receiving a wage of £5 a week, conditionally on his losing no time and working every day of the week. He was employed by Ross, Rough and Co., flaxmillcrs, and before the advent of electric power had been employed as an engine-driver by that firm. Melvyn David Keith Reid, of Otaki, who disappeared some weeks ago, following on an accident to his car, has been adjudged bankrupt on a creditor’s petition.