SHANNON BANKRUPTCY.

Shannon News, 24 December 1925, Page 3

SHANNON BANKRUPTCY.

FLAX-MILLER £SO BEHIND. A petition in bankruptcy lias been filed at the office of the D.O.A. (Mr C. E. Dempsy) by Frank Thomas Hodge, flax-miller, ot Shannon, in the financial statement the assets are shown as amounting to £25, and liabilities to £75 lls 70, thus leaving a deficiency of £SO lls 7-Jd. The creditors, none of whom is secured, is as foil low; —Dr. Mackereth £8 8s ; E. A. George £6, E. T. Moody £lO, J. Beard £3 19s sd, J. Turoa £5/ Tipler £1 Is 00, all of Shannon; J. P. McMillan, Levin, £24 Is; Rawles £6 and White £2, both of Stratford; A. Arthur, Ngaere, £7; Mounsey, Pokohura, £3 2s 2d. In his- statement, bankirfuipt states that, during the past two years, he has been employed at a fiaxmill at Shannon. On five separate occasions he hag suffered the misfortune to be totally disabled for upwards of a fortnight x through accident, while strikes, floods and forced stoppages of the mi ll have contributed towards loss of wages. He has twice bad sickness in the family with its attendant expense. 1-Ie has found.it increasingly difficult to meet his liabilities and as certain creditors have taken action against him, he had been compelled to file. In view of bis living conditions be cannot see his way to make his creditors any offer. Prior to the Avar he held a Government position and resigned in' 1916 to proceed on active service at the age of 17 years, being -wounded at the Somme after three years’ service. He was a married man wiitih a family of two. His earnings for the past two years have not exceeded £3-per week.