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Story: Business failures and corporate fraud

Contents

  1. Story summary

  2. Personal bankruptcy, corporate failure and fraud

  3. 19th-century business failures

  4. Government intervention, 1890–1940

  5. Failures since 1950

  6. External links and sources

All images and media

From page 1 - Personal bankruptcy, corporate failure and fraud

Occupational status of bankrupts

Occupational status of bankrupts

Bankruptcies and liquidations, 1875–2002

Bankruptcies and liquidations, 1875–2002

Levene advertisements

Levene advertisements (1st of 2)

 Levene advertisement

Levene advertisement (2nd of 2)

Voluntary administration

Voluntary administration (1st of 3)

Receivership

Receivership (2nd of 3)

Liquidation

Liquidation (3rd of 3)

Winebox inquiry cartoon

Winebox inquiry cartoon

From page 2 - 19th-century business failures

Petition of ‘Working Men of Nelson’

Petition of ‘Working Men of Nelson’

Auckland land holdings

Auckland land holdings

Thames in the gold-mining era

Thames in the gold-mining era

Bank of New Zealand, Auckland

Bank of New Zealand, Auckland

Sale of bankrupt stock

Sale of bankrupt stock

From page 3 - Government intervention, 1890–1940

Bank of New Zealand cartoon

Bank of New Zealand cartoon

Larnach castle

Larnach castle

NZ Perpetual Forests prospectus

NZ Perpetual Forests prospectus

John McArthur’s pamphlet

John McArthur’s pamphlet (1st of 2)

McArthur’s pamphlet

McArthur’s pamphlet (2nd of 2)

From page 4 - Failures since 1950

Collapse of JBL

Collapse of JBL

Share market crash

Share market crash

Craig Heatley and Allan Hawkins, 1984

Craig Heatley and Allan Hawkins, 1984

Victims of finance-company collapses

Victims of finance-company collapses (1st of 2)

Rod Petricevic and Porsche

Rod Petricevic and Porsche (2nd of 2)

How to cite this page:

Graeme Hunt, 'All images and media', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/business-failures-and-corporate-fraud/media (accessed 23 March 2023)

Story by Graeme Hunt, published 11 Mar 2010

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