THE LAST STRAW BANKRUPT GARDENER
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
FALMERSTON N., This Day.
The depredations of the white butterfly amongst his cabbage crop were cited by So Wing, a Chinese market gardener, of Foxton, as the last straw in a succession of misfortunes which led up to his filing a petition in bankruptcy. At a meeting of creditors yesterday, it was revealed that he owed £614, whereas has assets were only worth £81. The latter consisted of three horses (£SO), three carts (£10), car (£10), and plough, discs, and harrows (£11). Asked what he wasN doing now, So Wing said he was still living on the garden, but it had nothing in it. He was draining the place in the hope that someone might give him a fresh start. He had two children in China and four in New Zealand.
The meeting was adjourned sine die. Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 17, 19 July 1935, Page 7
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