A WESTLAND FARM.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1922, Page 7

A WESTLAND FARM.

BOUGHT IN WIFE’S NAME. THE HUSBAND FILES. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Herbert Edgar Bright, laborer, Frankley Road, and formerly of Greymouth, was called for yesterday at the office of the D.O.A. (Mr. J. S- S. Medley), New Plymouth, but lapsed for want of a quorum. According to bankrupt’s statement unsecured creditors’ debts amounted to £142 2s lid, whilst book debts owing to bankrupt totalled £lO, leaving a deficiency of £132 2s lid. The list of unsecured creditors was as follows, all being Greymouth creditors unless otherwise stated: Shannon and Glen, pastrycooks, £3 14s Id; J- Mirmo, grocer, B runnerton, £5.129 lOd; Ashby Bergh and Co., ironmongers, £llB 19s 8d; H. Bruhn, butchers, £27 16s sd; G. Schaef and Sons, furniture dealers, £5 13s lid, Overland Dairy Co., £2 8s Id; Dr. Mcßreaby, £2; Dr. McKoy, £1 Is; J. Walker and Co-, baker, Cobden, Greymouth, £8 Is 7d; Fogarty and Williams, drapers, £lO 4s 6d; -W-. H. Boucher and Co-, grocers, £26 10s; total £142 2s lid. . . Mr. R. H- Quilliam appeared on ' behalf of Ashby Bergh and Co., W. H. Boucher, H. F. Bruhn (from whom he held a proxy) and the Overland Dairy Co. Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour was also present. Examined under oath the bankrupt said: “I am a married man with seven children. I came to New Plymouth on March 23 last- Previous to that I had been living at Grey mouth, where my wife had a farm of 397 ax?res under a Crown lease for 66 years. The fa*m was in my wife’s name, whilst I worked at a sawmill, and what I made was given, to my wife to get w-hat- Was re--quired. In my spare tim? -I- used to work on the farm. It did not matter in whose name the farm was, but it was put in her name because I was working in the railway at the time. There were no improvements on the farm—it was just a bush section and had not a house on it, but one has been built since; also gigshed, cowshed, dairy, etc. Money was borrowed from the bank for this purpose. I felled the bush, at first employing no labor. The bank wanted to be ’paid off and advised us to sell, which we did to a man named Middleton: The price was £650. Of this we owed the bank £336. We came to New Plymouth before getting the money and we have not yet received the balance of roughly £3OO from the sale, although the lawyer said we should have it. I owed debts amounting to £142 odd when T left Greymouth.” Mr. Qu-illiam said Mrs. Bright had made an indirect offer of 10s in the £ to the creditors he represented, whose debts aggregated £llO. They would be satisfied, however, with 15s in the £- It was thereupon decided to call a further meeting for to-morrow, Bright in the meanwhile to see if his wife is willing to make such an offer. It was intimated that she expected to be in receipt of th.e balance of the money from the farm in the course of a few days.