A Small Debtors Bill.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43089, 7 May 1907, Page 3

A Small Debtors Bill.

Hon J. A. Millar, speaking at Waihi said he would introduce to Parliament next session a bill to do away with imprisonment for small debts when a man was honestly trying to meet liabilities. The bill would provide that a man who had fallen behind in payments could call his creditors together before the Official Assignee and agree to pay off so much a week. The weekly payments would be divided among the creditors pro rata, and while they maintained the protection of the order issued by the Assignee, would prevent the debtor being sued in the Magistrate’s Court for the recovery of small debts. While the honest man would be protected, a man who was attempting to evade his liabilities would have no protection whatever.