FARMER FAILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 8

FARMER FAILS

LOSES EVERYTHING NOW WORKING ON ROADS (From Our Oxen Correspondent.') HAMILTON, To-day. No creditors were present at the meeting called for the examination in bankruptcy to-day of Harry Ernest -Behrent, farmer, Mangatangi, who showed a deficiency of £9O 2s. In a written statement bankrupt attributed his failure to ill-health and insufficient capital. Some years ago he met with an accident in the quicksands of the Rangitikei River, being found unconscious with a horse on top of him. He never fully recovered his strength. In 1924 he owned a farm of 370 acres, which his father bought for him for £2,000, plus a mortgage of £2,400, and promised financial assistance, but died before he could do so. Bankrupt raised a loan of £650 on his stock and

implements, and his interest in his father’s estate. He worked the farm hard, bringing 200 acres into cultivation, but was unable to make it pay, and the stock was sold under a. bill-of-sale. He left the farm and was now working on the roads at Rukuhia, but was likely to be out of work soon. Bankrupt is a married man with four children.-