CARELESS BOOK-KEEPING.
-MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT ON THE ACT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, December 15. At the Police Court yesterday F. McGuire, plumber, of Tauranga, pleaded guilty to a. charge of having failed to keep proper books prior to his recent bankruptcy. The magistrate (Mr. E. C. Cutten) held that failure to show all payments in the books was the result of ignorance in book-keeping methods. In this particular the Bankruptcy Act came as a hardship on working people who had got a little money together and embarked on business for themselves, and from want of knowledge, and from uirelessness did not know how their business was going till they finally arrived at the Bankruptcy Court. That, however, was just what the sections were intended to protect the mercantile public from, as such cases were liable to do injury to oilier traders. The defendant had nis Worship's sympathy, but in the circumstances the lightest penalty that could be imposed was fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labor.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 180, 17 December 1912, Page 5
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164CARELESS BOOK-KEEPING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 180, 17 December 1912, Page 5
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