DEBTORS DISCHARGED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 1

DEBTORS DISCHARGED

MAORI’S “ADMISSIONS” NOT VIEWED SERIOUSLY BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS “I suppose many people have made similar admissions,” remarked Mr. justice Smith in the Supreme Court this morning in ruling out an objection to the discharge of a bankrupt, who was stated to have admitted ‘‘spending some time in hotels.” The bankrupt concerned was Tamati Wiremu, a native of Kaiaua, for whom Mr. E. C. Blomfield asked for discharge. The acting-official assignee, Mr. G. W. Brown, asked that discharge be suspended, because of tiie . admissions bankrupt had made. Mr. Blomfield spoke from his personal knowledge of Wiremu. saying he he had not known the native to he drunk. He was described by the officials of the Native Land Court as extremely honest and steady and a justice of the peace had instructed counsel to make a similar statement concerning Wiremu. His Honour: There is no. opposition from the creditors and the dividend hus been paid. There is no evidence on the extent of the conduct attributed to the man. I suppose many people have made similar admissions, and I shail grant the discharge. “It is a rare thing to note that a dividend of 20s in the pound has been paid by a bankrupt,” said his Honour in granting the discharge from bankruptcy of G. W. Fowler, agent, of Mount Eden.

Discharge from bankruptcy was also granted to William McCullay, jeweller, of Te Aroha; Arthur Ernest Warde. company manager, of Auckland: and John Ivor Hay, electrical engineer, of Auckland.

Orders of adjudication as bankrupts were made against Jesse Tanner, farmer, of Rotorua; Peter Tony Anich, boarding house keeper, of Victoria Street, Auckland; and B. T. Speer, of Point Chevalier.