IN LUCK'S WAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 281, 27 November 1925, Page 9

IN LUCK'S WAY.

OVER J260 RECOVERED

MONEY MISTAKEN FOR TOOLS.

A man coming along Devon Street, New Plymouth, on Monday night, chanced upon an old bag on the side, of the road, and, thinking it contained tools dropped by some passing motor car. lie threw tlie bag into a shed used by a friend of his. a car painter. Then; it lay in the open until next morning, when its owner came along and took away the bag and the £UU odd it contained.

This amount of money was the direct result of hundredweights of fish having passed over a counter from retailer to customer. The fishmonger had placed the savings in a bag strapped to the rear of his motor-cycle, ami the bag and precious contents fell off unnoticed.

He returned over the samp route aa soon as he discovered his loss, but found nothing. He inserted a "Lost" advertisement in the "Taranaki Herald," stating a large sum of money was involved) for the return of which there would be a reward of £7.

It is stated that the man who had found the bag lost his false teeth upon reading the advertisement. They fell to the ground and broke.

Hearing of a person having picked up the bag, and where it had been thrown, the fishmonger, with a shrewdness associated with some of the creatures he retailed to the public, called at the car painter's workshop, and asked if Mr. had left a bag for him. Mr. • certainly had, as far. as that car painter could judge, and the bag went back to its owner.