IN BANKRUPTCY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1922, Page 6

IN BANKRUPTCY.

DROVER AND FOREMAN FILE. DETAILS OF ESTATES. John iEmerson, drover of Eltham, who meets his creditors to-day, owes £BO 2s to John Lynksey, hotelkeeper, Waverley, and £l5 15e to Messrs O’Dea and Bayley, solicitors, Hawera. He sets his assets out as a horse and. f two dogs. “I was boarding at the Waverley .Hotel for close on six years,” Emerson explains in his statement. “Daring the last six or seven months of my residence' there I was out of employment practically all the time and was unable to pay my board. Recently 1 obtained work with Mr. A. O. Gower, of Eltham, and have been earning £2 5s per week. So far, however, I have been unable to pay the board account of Mr. Lynskey and he has taken out a judgment summons against me and threatened to put me in prison. As I am unable to pay this debt immediately and do not want to be imprisoned I have been forced to file.” A gig and harness worth £lO are the total assets of Frank Hickey, foreman, of Kaponga, who, according to a statement to be submitted/ to his creditors to-morrow, has a deficiency in his bankrupt estafte of £458 3-a 4d. There is a contingent balance from a share-milking contract with E. J. Stanford, but is stated to be not assessable. He owes £309 Is 3d to unsecured creditors, £l3O to the Farmers’ Cooperative Organisation Society of New Zealand, Ltd., Hawera,—the only secured creditor—and £29 2s Id, being a contingent liability as guarantor of his wife, Annie Hickey, to Thomas Buddle Crump. The unsecured creditors are:—W. Aiken, blacksmith, Opunake, £1 7s 7d; T. W. Armitage, draper, Manaia, £42 8s Id; estate M. Behl (deceased), butcher, Eltham, £1 4s; Dr. J.. R. Boyd, Kaponga, £1 8s; A. Bailey, butcher, Manaia, £5; A. Corkill, farmer, Inglewood., £lB 7s; Mrs. Corbin, storekeeper, Inglewood, £5 15s; T. Eaves, baker, Otakeho, £25; Emily Flay, grocer, Inglewood, £s> 12s Id; \V. G. 'Glennie, carrier, Patea, £7; V. Hurlestone, greor, Egmont ■ Village, £2B; Hunger and McCarthy, Ltd., coachbuilders, Patea, £3; Holmes and Arthur, Opunake, £2l Is 9d; Kaupokonui Dairy Co., £BO 18s; T. Murphy, cattle dealer, Egmont Village, £3; N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency, Ltd., Hawera, £l2; Powell and Shepherd, blacksmiths, Kaponga, £3 113; J. Rowan, butcher, Egmont Village, £5; D. Sutherland, baker, Patea. £6 17s 9d; Dr. Stevens, Stratford. £3; J. Taylor and Co., milking machine agent, Eltham, £2O 5s 3d; A. L. Young, baker, Manaia, £lO 15s 9d.