"LOTTERY" SCALA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 5

"LOTTERY" SCALA.

ROLL OF BANKNOTES. MONEY ON VERANDAH. HONESTY BRINGS SMALL SALE. MELBOURNE, September 9. A destitute woman who found a roll of banknote? on the verandah of a home in Patrick Street, Hurstville. tried so hard to return the money that she was threatened with the police unless she ceased "making a nuisance of herself."' I "I never believed that it was so hard to give money away, but then I have r never seen so much in years," she said. She was Mrs. Madge Terry, whose pre- ! sent address is a tent on the river bank 'at Como. I She lives there with her husband, an unemployed baker, who has trudged through Victoria and Queensland looking for work. When she found the money she had 1/fi in her pocket, earned by hawking needles from door to door.

"The money was lying on the floor of the verandah." said Mrs. Terry. "I picked it up. and found it consisted of several pound notes and a 10/ note.

"I hammered at the door, but could not get an answer. I thought at first everybody was out. but T wanted to sell my needles, so I kept on knocking. Finally a woman came to the door."

i Mrs. Terry said the woman appeared irritated. "Go away. I don't want to buy any needles," she said, and tried to shut the door. When Mrs. Terry persisted, the woman told her that if she insisted on making a nuisance of herself she would call a policeman. j "You mightn't want to buy any needles, Jjut you'll certainly need this," said Mrs. Terry, pushing the money into . her hands.

Result—Mrs. Terry sold a packet of needles.

"It was worth the effort to make the sale," said Mrs. Terry. "The woman told me that the money represented three weeks' rent, and she must have somehow dropped it there. She was pathetically grateful to get it back.

"My husband has tramped through two States looking for work," said Mrs. Terry. "We have no money, and we have had some terrible experiences, and that is one of the reasons why I was so keen on returning the money. I know what it is like to be without it."