EX-SOLDIER FAILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 10

EX-SOLDIER FAILS

“GENUINE MISFORTUNE”

CREDITORS SYMPATHETIC Gerald de Bathe Brandon's bankruptcy was described as a “genuine case of misfortune” at a meeting of creditors this morning. No opposition was raised to the suggestion by the official assignee, Mr. G. N. Morris, that the application for Brandon's discharge from bankruptcy should not be opposed. Brandon. who saw extensive war service, said that he had not been able to pay attention to his farming affairs. He had a property at Dargaville but was now an agent, living at Bayswater. Questioned by the assignee, Brandon said he had no assets, and the furniture belonged to his wife. The liabilities totalled £9ll. “I have been living on my war pension,” Brandson said. When bankrupt returned from the war, he invested in a 3,000-acre farm at Arapuni, and then put £960 in a property at Dargaville, in 1921. On this the Government advanced £2,500 and received 50 per cent, of the milk cheques. Illness forced Brandon return to hospital in 1923, and he had not been able to give his time fully to farming ever since. Heavy drops in produce values had also affected him. The Government told him that the farm was going back and lie had no option but to leave. He came off the farm with nothing.