A CARTERTON BANKRUPTCY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9185, 7 September 1908, Page 5

A CARTERTON BANKRUPTCY.

<r ' SCHEDULE OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. The bankruptcy of Joseph Aplin, farmer, of Carterton, was recorded at Masterton, on Saturday, bankrupt filing his own petition. The filed statement shows the liabilities to amount to £1,954 2s 7d, and the liabilities to £1,589 7s Bd. The secured creditors are as follow: —W. G. Beard, solicitor, Masterton, £SBO (on mortgage of some 14 acres of land); Mutual Trading Cu., Carterton, and G. A. Fairbrother, £l2O (mortgage on land); Thos. Ray, Carterton, £lll (mortgage on chattels). The unsecured creditors are:—Mutual Trading Co. (account disputed) £562 lis 4d; Commissioner of Taxes, £7 2s 3d; Aplin, farmer, Crofton, £33; Mrs R. Hooper Carterton, £300; J. Hodder, farmer, Dalefield, £49 18s; J. J. Smith laundryman, Carterton, £lB2 10s; Wallace and Masson, Carterton, £5; W. J. Beard, blacksmith, Carterton, £6; H. Greathead, blacksmith, Carterton, £4 10s. Johnson Bros., contractors, Carterton, £6 lis. The assets are comprised land and dwell-; ings in Carterton, to the amount of £1,589 7s Bd. Bankrupt has annexed a written statement to his fchedule in which he states that he is unable to assign the causes that brought about his bankruptcy, as being an illiterate man, the management of his affairs were in the hands of others. He details various business transactions, and says that he cannot honestly believe that some of the amounts debited to him are really owing. The first meeting of creditors will be held in Carterton, at the Courthouse, on Friday morning next at 11 a.m.