BUS SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 114, 4 August 1927, Page 11

BUS SERVICES

ALTERATIONS PLANNED MT. ALBERT AND GREY LYNN Mount Albert and Grey Lynn will, it is understood, have an altered service when the City Council takefj over the General Omnibus Company’s buses on August 14. The buses via Mount Albert to the city will be used only as feeders to the Mount Albert tram terminus. Bus services through Great North Road and Grey Lynn will be continued, and they will be aided at peak hours by the larger City Council buses.

Extracts from the statement showed that Blackmore repudiated the debt. In 1926 Priscott, his creditor, issued a writ against him for the £2OO claimed, together with interest. “I do not owe this money and deny that Priscott has ever lent me money at any time,” said the bankrupt. “Thinking the whole matter was merely a ‘try-on,’ I took steps to have the judgment set aside.” Bankrupt went on to state that he wrote a letter to Priscott disclaiming the liability. Continuing, he asserted: “It is a mystery to me on what grounds he bases his claim against me.” THE LIE ADMITTED Questioned by Mr. Wilkin respecting his purchase of a motor-truck in 1-921, debtor said his wife advanced him the money to pay the deposit on the vehicle, and he paid half-yearly instalments of £l5O from his earnings from the use of the truck. Mr. Wilkin then reminded Blackmore that he was on oath. “Do you deny that you then borrowed £2OO from Priscott?” “Yes.” Counsel thereupon produced a letter written by bankrupt to Priscott, acknowledging the debt and asking for time to repay it. as he expected money from the sale of shares he held. At this stage Mr. Wilkin made his accusation. Blackmore admitted that he had lied. “Then this statement is not true?” asked the assignee. Bankrupt also admitted he had made a false declaration. “You realise you have committed perjury?” Bankrupt admitted the fact. “Things are most unsatisfactory for the creditors,” said counsel. “He has gone to the length of lying to deny what is due to Priscott, and he has committed perjury to bolster up a claim that he does not owe the money.” “Here is a man who is earning £5 a week and he could easily have done something to pay off his liability,” continued Mr. Wilkin. “He only has one child and his wife to keep.” A letter from bankrupt’s solicitors to the assignee explained that Blackmore had been subjected to a very close cross-examination regarding his repudiation of the debt, but he persisted in his denial of any liability. “You have been foolish, and what chance you thought you had of getting away with it by a lie of that sort, I don’t know,” was Mr. Morris’s comment. The meeting was adjourned sine die.