AM EXTRAORDINARY BANKRUPTCY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 5

AM EXTRAORDINARY BANKRUPTCY.

A BUILDER'S RASH SPECULA" TIONS.

By Telegravh—Fress Asspciation.

AUCKLAND, L'anat Nigjht. John, Geprgo Hohsoni, formerly a builder ia Auckland, who pleadedi guilty histb week to 'two out of four counts, charging Mm with breadhes of the Bankruptcy Act in failing to b&ep proper books, amid in incurring dieibts a/fc a .time when he had mo reaisonaibile or probable expectation* of paying them, was 'brought >u!p before, Mk, JusitSice Chapman for Beaiifceihia& ait the Supreme Court 'to-day. " ";1 Mf Earle appeared' -for the pariisoaiar, amd, pointed out the extraordinary and imu&ual oircruiristanioeisi laurrounding the bankruptcy. For years, he said, the prisoner bad worked on wages a® a joiner, atnd was a isibeady, hard-working mam, clean, living and' rigorously honourable. In Jaanuary laisit the started m business a.e a builder, and wafl adjudicated a bankrupt on May 7431. Hi® [business career wia® mieteoric. Be oommemoed <to build: oil allotments on which he had inot eve®, paid a deposit, and- employed a large, staff on work ! which oould not possibly tbie profitable. ; William Rowe gave evidence concerning the mental change that had taken plaoe in the prisoner. From ;a qiiiet aoid steady man he developed ja violence of language, and raishjnie,s9 7V ki speculation, that indicated was not rational. Ho opened a'shop and filled it with .second-, hand fumcturo, istiamted a joinery i&hop, and' then, wanted to emlbasrk in a park but-chery stoop, i A further remand was granted till Friday, so that in. the (meantime! the man may be medically examiiir,ed.