LOST HANDBAG

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1932, Page 9

LOST HANDBAG

LEFT ASHORE AT PANAMA,

COMING ON TO NEW ZEALAND

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

To leave a handbag containing money and papers at Colon, Panama Canal, and learn some days later that it would be returned to her at Wellington a month afterwards was the experience of a woman" who reached Wellington last week from London by the Tainui. While ashore at Colon she left the handbag in a store and did not discover her loss until the Tainui was making the transit of the Canal. She did not mention the loss of the bag to any of the ship's officers. Four days after the Tainui had left Balboa, however, the master received a wireless message from the master of the Ivaramea, which had cleared Balboa, that day, also bound for New Zealand, stating that he had a handbag which was believed to belong to one of the Tainui's lady passengers. There was very little in the bag to identify it, and the message that it had been found was posted on the ship's notice board. The owner claimed the bag and will have it returned to her this week. The bag was evidently handed over to the police at Colon, who passed it 011 to the master of the next ship bound for New Zealand.