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Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1921, Page 4

A peculiar position has arisen in connection witn the assigned estate of Henry Thomas Hurrell, saddler, of Te Puke. Hurrell, who is at present serving a sentence of three years for bigamy, was put through a severe examination before the official assignee, Mr. W. A. Eames, last year, when a representative of the creditors, moat of whom were in Auckland,.was present. When the official assignee came to deal with the estate it was discovered that Hurrdl had previously been adjudged bankrupt in Christchurch in 1906, when he paid nothing in the £. According to the law, the assignee who deals with the first bankruptcy is entitled to call upon any assets in the second estate to pay the creditors of the first. The Christchurch creditors will therefore receive payment in full after 14 years, whereas those in Auckland will get OU'S *4y what remains of th© estate