MONEY THROWN AWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1934, Page 8

MONEY THROWN AWAY.

GREEK MILLIONAIRE'S WHIM.

ATHENS, January 25.

One of the country's richest men, Ramos, a millionaire industrialist, who is noted for his eccentricity, startled the capital by appearing at the second floor window of his residence, and beginning to throw 100, 500 and 1000 drachmae notes to passers-by on the street.

The news spread like wildfire, and an immense crowd soon assembled before the house, with everybody fighting for a chance to snare one of the notes fluttering through the air. By the time the police arrived on the scene, fighting had developed into a regular riot, and reserves had to be called out in order to disperse the crowds.

When the police entered the house to keep Eamos froni throwing his money away in this primitive fashion, the latter began to tear up a bundle of bills heaped up before him, meanwhile informing the gaping constables that he was tired of bothering with this "dirty paper" which had proved "such a burden to him."

Ramos was finally taken to a sanatorium, and his family, on checking up accounts, discovered that he had scattered to the winds or the waste basket more than 100,000 drachmae (£267 at par).