A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 302, 23 December 1907, Page 2

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

AN U.NFOitTUNATK MAN. The following statement has been supplied to tlie Gisborne Deputy Assignee, by Albert Treeves, laborer, who has filed his schedule in bankruptcy:— "1 am a laborer. Until live years ago 1 lived at Midhurst, Taranaki. Work got slack there, und 1 was unable to secure employment, s0 1 went to Ngaire. 1 was married at that time. 1 got occasional employment there, just barely enough to keep me going. 'I got i typhoid fever there, and was taken to the Hawera Hospital, where I remained about eight weeks. I then went back to Midhurst. After I had been there a week my wife became ill, and took three weeks to recover. I worked there for about a month, but owing to lack of employment, went, to Manaia. While working there my knee was chopped open with an axe, a „d I was laid up for three months. I stayed there about two months after my recovery, and cot occasional employment, but was unable to undertake hard work, owin* to mv injured knee. From there I went t'o | Hawera, where I remained for eight months. I was not able to get work the whole time, but was just able to get enough to keep the home going. 1 then moved to Taihape, where I got work in the bush. I had another accident while at this work, my leg being again cut with an axe. I was taken to the Wanganui Hospital, and remained there a month. Soon after leaving the hospital I heard of work in Martinborough, and went there. It was there about three months, but did not get much to do, and so wont back to Wanganui, where I remained for six weeks, and then came on to Gisborne, arriving thero about last New Year. About a month after I arrived I took up a bushfelling contract with two partners. When the job was half through I was attacked with pleurisy, and was brought to the Gisborne Hospital, where I was ill for three weeks. I remained at home for a fortnight, and then went back to the bush, but I was too weak to do much work. I had to return to town a week before the job was finished,' because iny wife was ill. There were too doctors attending her. My two boys became ill tefore she recovered, and both went to the hospital. I only made wages out. of the bush contract I then went in for another bush contract with two mates at Waingake. After I had been on it about eight weeks I had an accident, my right foot being cut with an axe. This was two days before the show, and I have been unable to get about since. lam a married man with six children, the eldest of whom is about nine years old. I attribute my bankruptcy chiefly to the illness of myself and family, an d also to the lack of employment. Being a laboring man, I have kept no books. I have no assets whatever. I am not in a position' to make any offer to m,' v creditors. The statement showed: Debts £2BO 17a lOd; assets, nil'. Me TarannJu creditors were:—Midhurst creditors' Sergeant £2O, Carruthers £l3, Harwood £lO, Scnvener £l2, Father £l2 (nil storekeepers), and Jones (butcher) £l3 Manaia creditors: Ching Fong (sroceri f- 2 ',o Dl ' G °n od , U iS > Y °'4 W ±.o l»s. Other creditors: Gray Eltharn grocer, £2l; Brown and Wainwriglit, Wanganui, furniture sellers, £ll- - £l4, and Berry £l2. Taihape grocers: Haycock and Kcrshay £lB, aid Ross £l4, Martinborough grocers ; Ryan Bros., jewellers, Wellington, .£l2- 'Br Harding, Eltham, £0; Dr Carbery, J!? ' f3: Dr Christie ' Wan S anili '