FATHER’S PROTEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 13

FATHER’S PROTEST

WOULD NOT LEAVE CHILD PAINTER MEETS CREDITORS “I don’t want to be separated from my baby. You can’t expect that. 1 want to be near it always,” protested Neville P. J. Meehan, a young painter, when a creditor suggested this morning that Meehan should leave his child with his mother fer economic reasons. Several creditors expressed surprise that Meehan should be paying as much as £3 a week to his mother for his board and the keep of the child. Bankrupt, who is a painter, of England Street, Ponsonby, informed Mr. G. N. Morris, the official assignee, that he was also paying £1 a week for furniture. Ilis weekly earnings were only £4 19s. After considerable questioning, the creditors passed a resolution that Meehan’s discharge from bankruptcy should be opposed until he paid 15s in the pound, at the rate of £ 1 a week. Meehan’s total debts were £l6B 10s, unsecured creditors’ amounts being £34. His assets were £IOB, and the was £6O 10s. Legal disputes haS occurred in connection with a property which he and his wife had owned jointly. She died in January, 1928, and her mother was left sole executrix. Litigation was probable regarding validity and certain bequests under the will, Meehan said in his statement. He was not able to pay his debts because of judgments against him through disputes over the property. He could make no offer to his creditors.To Mr- Morris, Meehan said his mother-in-law had been occupying the house concerned and he had been unable to rent it.