T. AND A. HAYWOOD’S MEETING

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1130, 27 December 1883, Page 2

T. AND A. HAYWOOD’S MEETING

TO THE EDITOR.: Snip—The letter which appeared in yonr paper jof Monday evening signed “Not. yet a bankrupt ” is written in snch an apparent spirit of malice and contains snch glaring inaccuracies as hardly to necessitate a reply. At the same time we think it only fair to ourselves to point out in what these inaccuracies consist. In this first place “ Not yet A B ” says that onr statement to Mr Christie in October last showed onr estate to be worth 30a in the £. We would ask “ Not yet AB ” to examine carefully our filed statement and sec for himself that it also represents the same satisfactory amount. Any slight difference that may exist in the two statements wc arc quite prepared to explain at our next meeting. “ Not yet A B ” must be totally void of business ability if he fails to see that although our estate is of such full value yet in the present'depressed stnte.of the district it is quite impossible to raise money upon it at the present lime. With regard to Mr Christie's proposals we hog to state that besides being decidedly unfair to our other creditors (Mr Christie wanting, on behalf of the Bank, to grasp the whole of onr available property for an advance of £600) the conditions imposed with regard to repayments put the proposals quite beyond our acceptance in (he then dull state of onr business. “ Not yet A B ’’ would prevaricate ,by saying that Mr Christie did not take but execution against ns until he heard of Mrs Hay. wood’s boxes going aw<iy. Now we can clearly prove that, Mr Christie had taken out a writ against ns some lime previous to the.boxes going away, ; and when we were actually expecting to make such arrangements. with him as would enable us to carry on. “ Not yet A B” further, says, wished the meeting at first to understand that only two small cases went away containing a few nick-nacks belonging to Mrs Haywood and her chihl. With regard to this we c.*.n only say that “ Not yet A B ” was either not at the meeting of creditors and relies on hearsay evidence for his infoimation, or 4-hnt he is deliberately stating that which he knows to bo false. - Mr T. Haywood, although a little confused by the browbeating of Mr Barton, plainly admitted that a number of boxes had gone away. “ Not yet. A B’s” letter so bristles with malice as to undermine the ground he stands upon and thus defeats the very object he had-in view. We shall write fully on this matter hereafter and only refrain from doing so now in order that we may not be charged with attempting to obtain sympathy with, or to mislead onr creditors immediately before the meeting. In conclusion we would request the whole of our creditors to be present at the meeting on Thursday next when wc will endeavour to explain everything to their satisfaction.—Yours &c. T. and A. Haywood.