MONEY HUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1931, Page 7

MONEY HUNT.

BANKNOTES ASTRSJ,

NEARLY £1000 WOBTHL parcel LETT ON SANK TABI^. FAIiS INTO HONEST HANDS. IGSas might have trembled had he exited an Auckland bank this morning, for there, on a small table, neatly parcelled, was a very useful little sum of monev, simply waiting for anybody to take it awav. Nearly £1000 worth of banknotes and Treasury notes had been left unguarded, rand there they remained for" over a quarter of an hour. The table is for the use of tne public, and is occupied durina the greater part of the da v. People and went out on their lawful occasions this morning, and some of them against- the table, almost touching the pile of notes —a verv '"handy' little bundle, securely fastened with an elastic band. They were in denominations or from £1 to £10*3, and all were negotiable. _ The explanation of their presence Is simple. They had been inadvertently leit on the table. The money was due for transference to another biz business establishment not 100 yards away. The men in charge made the journev, and their feelings when they discovered that they had left the money behind mav be better imagined than described. A hectic half hoar ended wHen it was reported that the notes were safe. Fortunately they had come into honest hands, having been observed on the table by a member of the escort of another city bank. He handed them over to the teller on duty. So all was well that ended welL