AN HONOURABLE MAN.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 99, 25 July 1902, Page 5

AN HONOURABLE MAN.

Mr O. W\ Gooden,. of Ne/vr Zealand, on Saturday (Wys the British Australasian of May 2SQ achieved the honourable distinction \nf paying, off his creditors in Norfolk alter 23 and received at their hands a silver casket holding £125 in goloVas a token of esteem. The romance of Mp Goodson’s struggle to pay off his,'English creditors will be recollected, f6r.it was told 18 months ago,\ when Mr Goodson sent a cheque from\New Zealand for <£992. In 1879, while he was in business at Norwich. Mr Goodson found it necessary through misfortune jj to make a deed of assignment," hijfl liabilities being aliott <£sooo. |fl 1880 his creditors accented a tion of 8s 5d in the .pound, Goodson emigrated to New Zeabui^^Mß the hope of better fortune H wiping out the deficit. with a will and jujyluall/ business and s:ua|^Hßu£hy. was on the his pressioi^^Mj^H^^^r® w he resolutely battled with few years ago he paid all Zealand creditors in full—— —and they presented him with Mp>ld watch and a silver salver. On Saturday, Mr Goodson himself met his English creditors at Norwich, and paid them iti all £1795, wiping out his indebtedness. There 'was quite a happy creditors’ meeting, and Mr Gurney Baxt m, who presided, in handing Mr Goodson the casket, said that they all had a high appreciation of his honour. Mr Goodson replied that his creditor’s sift would be treasured as heirlooms tor his family.