IN BANKRUPTCY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10575, 5 March 1912, Page 3

IN BANKRUPTCY

.lAS. SAWMSLLER. Jas. Johnson; sawmiller, of Vvhakarua, Mastorton, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities amount to £341 9s Bd, and his assets are £2SO, consisting of stock-in-trade £250, and book debts. £3O, leaving a deficiency of £GI 9s Bd. The list of unsecured creditors is as follows: Pain and Kershaw, Maiv ( tinborough, £sl 19s lOd; Balgety and , Co., Mavtinborough, at, 13 18s lOd; W.F.C.A., Carterton, £2O; C. Cave, Carterton, £5 4s; B. Wadham, Carterton, £1 5s Od; B. Dyke, Martinborough, £1 Is Gd; Jas. Elliott, Masterton, £1 15s; Berrill, Carterton, j £ls; E. J. Playle, Carterton, £5 10s; Aitchist-m", Martin-borough, 15s; A. McLeod, Mastorton, £2l ; J. Wylie, 17s; G. Pritchard, £1.3; H. Mcßein, £8 10s; A. Johnson, £5; W. Steggall, £G; J. Brown, £8; C. O'Brien,) £95; H. Welch, £l7 ; F. Smith, £IG; I J. Me-Kellar, £lB. ((All the last I mentioned are mill hands at Featherston). Bankrupt has put the following statement as the cause of his filing: —"The debts I have- contracted are all connected with a sawmill leased from Berrill, of Carteiton, situated at Whakarua, near Martinhorough. .■ I had £25 to start with, and Mr Ber-] rill referred me to business people i where I could get stores, etc., until the .mill brought in returns. I took \ the mill over on November 6th, and I it was about five weeks before any timber was cut and sold. Since then work has been going on satisfactorily, hut Pain and Kershaw, of Martiniborough, sued me for £52 for stores, and if this judgment was enforced it would cripple me entirely. I was compelled to file. I think I could have made a- success of the mill but for this." The first .meeting of creditors will ibo held in the Court-house. Masterton, on Saturday, March 9th, at 12 I .noon. [ Mr G. H. Ciillen is acting for the bankrupt- 1 .