NO DEBT COLLECTING
WRONG USE FOR BANKRUPTCY COURT JUDGE’S COMMENT “The Bankruptcy Court is not a debt-collecting institution,” observed Mr. Justice Herdman, at a sitting today, to counsel’s . request for an adjournment of the hearing of a. summons for the adjudication of IT. H. Adams, mining engineer, of Grey Lynn, as a bankrupt. On behalf of the petitioning creditor, Mr. Grant stated that the proceedings had been served on the debtor’s wife on the morning of the previous sitting of tho court, tho hearing being then adjourned for a month. Since then the debtor had paid £SO off his liability of £260, and had asked for further time, stating that there was a good dhance of the debt being met. Counsel stated that the sum of £260 had been raised by the debtor on a motor-car, which was being jointly held by the debtor and the petitioning creditor for sale,, but so far it had not been disposed of. The debtor was working at the back of Coromandel. \ week’s adjournment was granted by his Honour, who instructed counsel to advise the debtor to attend next week, otherwise he would be made bankrupt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 10
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192NO DEBT COLLECTING Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 10
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