DISCHARGE REFUSED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 9

DISCHARGE REFUSED

BEAUTY SPECIALIST’S BANKRUPTCY ESTATE MONEY INVOLVED “Although I offered the whole of my business, they forced me into the Bankruptcy Court, and then sold the business,” said Florence Chatterton. a beauty specialist, formerly of Auckland, who to-day appeared on subpoena before Mr. Justice Reed in the Bankruptcy Court seeking a discharge from bankruptcy. Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, for the bankrupt, said his client had just arrived from Wellington. The previous application had come before kr. Justice Stringer and was adjourned for certain information. The bankrupt was made sole beneficiary under her mother’s will, but this was upset by her brothers, who carried the case to the Appeal Court. The amount involved in costs for this was £4OO, and it was in respect of this that she was adjudicated. It was alleged that she had not disclosed certain money, but she would swear that all moneys shf had received had gone through her bank book. “The position is not quite as it has been stated,” said Mr. Violoux, who opposed the application. “She deliberately drew money out of the bank that she received out of the estate and used it for herself. After the writ for the recall of probate of the will she drew £IOO. Before the appeal she drew another £IOO, and after the hearing of the appeal and the giving of judgment against her, she drew £316. In two years she drew £l,lOB, and of that we say £7OO belonged to the His Honour said that if it was true that bankrupt had taken the money after judgment had been given against her, it amounted to sharp practice. Giving evidence, bankrupt said all the money she had ever had, had gone through her bank-book. She could not remember when judgment was given against her, nor cculd she recall what she did with the £316 she had drawn from the bank. She had not handed back any of the money she received because she had none to hand liack. His Honour refused tc» grant tne discharge.