CHANCE FOR BANKRUPT
STARTED BEHIND SCRATCH BUILDER WITHOUT BOOKS Kenneth Laing, a builder, who was remanded for sentence, having beer convicted on Monday on two charges of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, was* given a chance at the Police Court this morning. failed to keep proper account books and, according to Mr. V. X. Hubble, who prosecuted, incurred debts amounting to £SBO without reasonable expectation of being able to pay them. “I find that Laing was engaged in a business about which he had little knowledge." said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S-M----this morning. "He started behind scratch and there is no evidence of extravagant living, so I shall admit him to probation for two years. He will have to pay £2O towards the cost of the prosecution. "This does not mean that other men convicted of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act w-ill get probation/' concluded the Magistrate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 541, 19 December 1928, Page 12
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147CHANCE FOR BANKRUPT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 541, 19 December 1928, Page 12
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