Couldn’t Live on £2,000 A Year

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1937, Page 7

Couldn’t Live on £2,000 A Year

FRIEND PAID DEBTS BUT CUT I EX-A. T 'C.’s ALLOWANCE I A man who couldn’t live on £2,060 a ye:r allowed him by a friend was accused of “gross extravagance” by Air Registrar Parton in 'he London Baukrv.p* Court. When the man fell to debt, it was stated, tho friend paid the debts, but reduced the allowance to 14 a week — a tei of vv' at it had been. Then the man got into debt again. Application was male “ - dis- | charge of Alexander de Grey Staveley j Staveley-Hill, of ie Moon street, j x adilly, who w adju ;ed bank rupt in November, 1934. The Registrar, ho r, suspended discharge for a year. Ranking liabilities were estiTr'“' , d at 11 45° said the Assistant Official Receiver, and the assets had realised £l2 10s. Mr Staveley-Hill left school in 1919. For six n- ths from August. 1925, c was tutor to <-’’e sons of an Indian prime, and from June, 1926, to July, 1927, was A.D.C. to the Governor of I Bombay. j Subsequent!- he acted as a car sales ; man until his marirage. in only, 1930. From that date he wa"S without occup"!'- I.t in receipt of an allowance of £2,000 a year. In addition his v .Iso ad an allowance. In June, 1932, liabilities amounting to about £2.0C0, which had >eon incurred by him as a result of extravagant living wer. 'iseharged v • me irio who had been making him the allowance; t s was then reduced to £4 a week. During 1932, 1933 and 1934, as his expenditure continued to exceed his ! income Staveley-H’ll borrowed from ! money 1 cnders. Bankruptcy foliowcd.