"OUT FOR GOOD TIME"
(Bress. Assn.—
DRINKING AND RACES AMAZING STORY OF BANKRUPTS FlVE DAY BOtlT SPENT NEARLY £400
-By 'telegraph — Copyright).
CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. "I was out for a good time drinking, and at the races. I went wild, and ho'w I Cannot remember anything. My money is gone, hnd I don't know where." This was the story told by Victor Emanuel Charles Ingram, a bankrupt boot irhporter, of Ashburton, when he appeared before His Honour Mr. Justice Adams at the Supreme Court this morning for examination. After hearing the bankrupt's evidence as to how he spent nearly £400 in gambling and a drinking bout of five days. His Honour described it as an amazing story. Ingram was adjudged bankrupt in 1930, and was given an unconditional discharge from bankruptcy in July 1931. On July 15, 1931, he received | the £400 from his father's estate, and the aSsignee said he did not disclose the fact to his creditors. Last November the discharge from bankruptcy was reversed on the application of the Official Assignee, and to-day's case was an inquiry into the expenditure of the money.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 243, 3 June 1932, Page 5
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