PETITION TO PARLIAMENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 720, 31 July 1878, Page 2

PETITION TO PARLIAMENT.

The following petition to the House of "Representatives was signed yesterday by the whole of the bankers, merchants, and business people in Oamarn : The humble petition of the undersigned, merchants, traders, and others, carrying on business at Onmaru. in the Provincial District of Otago. .SiiKWK'iii as follows : 1. That the provisions of the Debtors and Creditors Act 1876, relating to the gazetting of notices under that Act, entail great inconvenience and sometimes loss unon your petitioners and the trading community of New Zealand in general, inasmuch as creditors residing at a distance from the dlgtrint. in whinh nrn/wprijnga are foken by

[debtors* under that Act have no -adequate [means of obtaining prompt information with i r. jpect to such notices. If? : 2. 'That it is of great importance to your ! ne'i'-i'v-nrs and the trading community in genera! that they should bo able to see im-. mediately after the publication thereof, all Gazette notices relating to any proceedings under the said Act, which may be taken in any district in New Zealand. 3. That the Gazette notices are required l>y the Act to he gazetted in the local newspapers " published and generally circulating iu the district in which the proceedings arc •aUeu;" and consequently such notices are ,:irelv seen by creditors residing in other districts in which such local newspapers are not published and do not generally circulate.

-4. That m the opinion of yen- petitioners, it is desirable that all notices uu rthe s.-u.l Vet should lie required to be gazett I in the Mercantile Gazette of New Zealain., published at Dunedin, and circulating generally unong merchants aud traders in every district in the Colony, as well is in one or more local newspaper or newspapers circulating in the district in which the debtor may reside—the Mercantile Gazette being the only publication in the Colony specially devoted to bankruptcy proceedings, 5. That if such notices were so gazetted, it would be the means of furnis'iing prompt information to creditors in whatever district they might happen to reside, and would '.hereby prevent the inconvenience aud loss r.o which creditois residing at a distance an now subjected Your petitioners therefore humbly pray chat your Honourable House will take the matter of this petition into consideration, and that such provisi >n may be made for thf purpose of giving effect thereto as to you: Honourable Hniise may seem meet. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.

A similar petition has also been inline' tially signed in Duuedin, Christchurch, aud Invercargill.