SOLD FOR A SHILLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 583, 8 February 1929, Page 12

SOLD FOR A SHILLING

WASHING MACHINE THAT COST £125

LAUNDRESS’S BANKRUPTCY When the bailiffs came and took away a washing machine from Alice Margaret Hemming, married laundress, of Dominion Road her business was seriously affected She considered the replacement value of the machine to be £125. But the crowning disappointment was when the bailiffs sold the machine in an auction for a shill-ing-piece. Mrs. Hemming had insured ih« machine tor £IOO. This morning her affairs came before a meeting of her creditors for review by the Official Assignee, Mr. G. N. Morris. After examination, Mr. Morris found that there were not sufficient grounds disclosed at the meeting to oppose i discharge. His suggestion that the bankruptcy should be held over for a month or two, so that the affairs should become plainer, was approved by the creditors. “I owe my present position entirely to the fact that the woman from whom 1 rented laundry premises ignored every reasonable request f( repairs," Mrs. Hemming said. 'I was not able to carry on with a good deal of the laundry work. Much of it had to be sent outside because 1 could not handle it while the repairs had not ben made. Then the bailiff for the landlady came and took away the washing machine. I had to wash by hand and lost the best of ray customers. My husband was out of work for 10 months last year, and I had to support the family.” Mrs. Hemming could produce as her only assets, 9s in cash. She owed £122 15s 3d to unsecured creditors. Amounts due to secured creditors were £US4 12s 6d, and against this sum were securities estimated to yield £630. The total debts were £177 7s 9d, and the deficiency was £176 18s 9d, but the assignee intimated that another liability of £ss would have to be considered.