HABITUAL BANKRUPT AGAIN IN PRISON
HIS FOURTH BREACH STILL PILES UP DEBT Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Four times adjudged bankrupt and twice sentenced to imprisonment tor breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, John Henry Whitaker, studmaster, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to having obtained more than £2O credit from J. C. Hutton, Ltd., without first having told the firm he was an undischarged bankrupt. Mr. Macassey, for the Crown, said Whitaker was adjudged bankrupt in Auckland in 1912, at Gisborne in 1918. at Napier in 1922 and recently at Wellington. The total amount of credit obtained in the present case ■svas £3B 6s 6d, but since the last bankruptcy he had incurred liabilities totalling £492. To meet this he had assets valued at £SO, but these would probably realise only £lO. A term of four months' imprisonment was imposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 13
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