EXCITED CREDITOR ATTACKS BANKRUPT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 13

EXCITED CREDITOR ATTACKS BANKRUPT

THE D.O.A. PROTECTS FLYING BANKRUPT PURSUED ROUND TABLE (Specia. to THE SUN.J WANGANUI, Thursday. Creditors’ meetings as a rule are pretty flat. They take their gruel quickly and endeavour to look pleasant. However, an exception to the rule occurred at Hawera when a young man named Ec’ ard Charles Tapp, previously engaged as a carrier at Hawera, and now following the occupation of a contractor at Palmerston North, appeared before the district official assignee. A lively interlude took place when a certain creditor, apparently taking exception to the cool demeanour of bankrupt, took off his coat to give the latter “a few rounds of the kitchen.” The creditor alleged that bankrupt averaged £9 a week for over two years. This bankrupt denied. The creditor: I warn you! Don’t get up to any trickery! I know your position. I’m quite prepared to cut out my debt, because it was through me you got your credit. Bankrupt, however, refused to make an offer and proceedings assumed a dramatic turn when the creditor to whom bankrupt addressed several denials hastily divested himself of his coat and sought to get to grips with bankrupt, who dodged round the table and hastily shielded himself behind the district official assignee. It was some seconds before the district official assignee brought home to the aggrieved creditor the fact that such tactics could not be permitted and pacified him so that he retired crestfallen, and much to the relief of the bankrupt. A few minutes later the creditor returned and tendered an apology to the district official assignee for forgetting himself.