A BANKRUPT BAKER.
LET OFF TO FIGHT. Auckland, Nov. 13. Tom Strange, a bankrupt baker, had to undergo a severe examination at a meeting of creditors. Debtor stated that when lie was fined in court for selling light-weight bread he enlisted in the infantry and was informed lie would be transferred to baking a.l Trentham. The fact that he had a wife and six children was known to the military authorities, because it was on his papers. A creditor stated that it the debtor kept sober he could earn .£3 15s to £4 a week as a baker in Auckland. It would be a disgrace to let the man go and leave a young wife to battle for ?>ix children. The Assignee suggested that the wife might be better off if the debtor went than if he remained behind and drank. Debtor having signed a document allotting the whole of his pay except a shilling a day to his wife and family, the meeting declined to take any steps to stop him enlisting.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1915, Page 5
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173A BANKRUPT BAKER. Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1915, Page 5
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